“Perhaps there is someone there who has in independent thought that the group could reflect on.”
And they get heard. If they propose goofy stuff like ordaining queers or allowing divorce or sodomy or infanticide (all now accepted in various of the protestant cults) they get told they are wrong though. How bout in your little group?
We don’t have much time to reflect on those things. We are too busy STUDYING THE WORD OF GOD.
These are as well in the catholic membership but they are hidden and not revealed for fear of excumincation. But neither nor no church should be supporting these things. You are right about that...the difference is only to the degree the people are hidding these things.