Doctrinal Christianity, since St. Augustine (395 A. D.), relates to all peoples as those who are the regrettably necessary but useful idiots. There is no ongoing conversational freedom with either the bar folk or the pew folk, only doctrinal pronouncements from the pulpit or the platform. Why has it always been so?
Could it be that a conversation is counterproductive to the priorities of the church, which judges success solely as contributing membership? Just guessing but one might ask, is faith doctrinal agreement or a live conversation? That quandary has played out among us for far to long. gg
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
