[oldbrowser]

Many churches came out to meet the cultural revolution halfway. The results were irrelevance and scandal -- too many Elmer Gantrys in televangelist pulpits and too many predators in priestly cassocks.

Christianity is being diluted by infighting of Christian sects. Every time I read about it I think of the story of the Tower of Babel.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Christianity is being diluted by infighting of Christian sects.

Amen. You see it all too often here on FR when Catholics and Protestants start sniping at each other over "how many angels can fit on the head of a pin?" style theological questions.

[Rashputin]

It's way beyond sects, it's become another fertile ground for individualism where every individual has their own personal version of Christ and Christianity.

Even within all the thousands of groups there's a constant churning of people coming and going whenever they feel uncomfortable with or disagree with something at a particular church.

Since Luther what passes for Christianity in the West has been on the glide path to, "It's all about me" with the only requirement being that someone say a few magic words which then makes them free to use the name of Christ to justify everything from queers marrying one another to masses of children born out of wedlock if that's how they personally interpret Scripture to suit their Self and Self Alone.

With no authority other than Self, there's anarchy which is the inevitable endpoint of the Protestant Revolt.