[SoothingDave]

Changing the power structure seems to be a better solution, or maybe a good start would be to acknowledge that your church can be fallible.

Why would a leopard deny his spots?

Arrogance (Pride) is a sin you know.

BE took a paragraph or two. I'll be pithy: It ain't bragging if you can do it.

SD

[Iowegian]

BE took a paragraph or two. I'll be pithy: It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Saying it (or typing it) doesn't make it so. It's still amounts to: "we are right because we say we are right". It might satisfy you, but it proves nothing.