***Their theology is often more about “What God can do for you in this world!”. It is more pop culture than actually religion.
yes, but they DO fulfil a need. This IS a failing on the part of us conservatives. We should NOT water down or “liberalise” our theology to suit the flavour of the moment. We should state proudly — we’ve been this way since 33 AD and we intend to remain this way, in accordance with God’s plan***
The Latin Church, to our everlasting shame, did just that after Vatican II. I had some conversation with one of my Baby Boomer friends last Sunday and needled him about the excesses of Vatican II finally being reversed and he got all red and indignant saying that we did not go anywhere near far enough.
The irrelevant generation is slowly making itself, well, more irrelevant all the time. The fascinating chess game that BXVI is playing with the American bishops is soooo entertaining.