So, what is the criterium for a "worthy discussion?" Something we all can tap each other on the shoulder and agree?
All I am saying is that the Church should stick to theology.
I just think it is a minute issue and that only a few rare churches have succumbed to it as a philosophy.
I have this movie, Triumph of Faith, a documentary about a pilgrimage in Russia in the late 90's I think. An Orthodox pilgrimage. I love the movie, but at one point the women do this ritual thing where they crawl three times around a tree stump and think it will bring them health or something.
And when you're watching this, you're thinking Argh!
But the rest of the movie is fun and very inspiring, for me at least. They walk miles and miles, sleep in the rain, are just like children in their approach - take very little food and water, no serious planning as we would here for a day hike.
Some of the elderly people have plastic wrapped around their swollen feet. And they keep walking.
In a church where we have so much ritual we tend toward superstitions. It says in the movie that the priests frown on what the women are doing but overlook it.