Have you ever studied how some Amish celebrate mass? At homes - which change weekly. They don’t have churches. AND, they don’t wear the costumes that many “religious” men do. They don’t have figureheads whose rings are kissed, nor leaders who receive the prayers despised by the iconoclasts.
My answer to you is same for religion as it is for politics: EGO and Money. Those two factors will corrupt ANY organization. What Machiavelli wrote in “The Prince” was quite true. Egos and money has corrupted even our government, the best ever designed, despite our MC’s oath to preserve and protect the Constitution.
The sad thing is that we can deal or not with any church we desire. But we are chained to our government.
I am very active in the latter......and that activity is growing steadily.
We will soon answer to God - and this argument will be settled.
Have you ever studied how some Amish celebrate mass?
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Ummm...the Amish don’t ‘celebrate Mass’, they have services.
Mass is a specific TYPE of service.