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Permalink Reply by Apple on April 19, 2010 at 6:38pm

I like your avatar. ^_^

You also have to remember that the church, like all churches, is a business.
If the pope's financial advisors calculate that it has come to the point where allowing women as priests will earn more money than it will cost them then he will have a "vision from God" and announce to the world that god has suddenly changed his mind on the subject.

We have seen this happen over and over. And obvious example is the requirement of having the mass said in Latin. This was getting too boring for people, so the made the financial decision to allow the mass to be held in local languages in order to keep the money coming in.

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Permalink Reply by Skycomet the Fallen Angel on April 20, 2010 at 11:20am

:P
But Apple,
I think this goes WAY beyond that. YES the Catholic church is a business. It is the biggest church organization on the planet. However it REFUSES to acknowledge that it is a capitalistic, fiscally-oriented, OFFICIAL business! Maybe we wouldn't have such a problem if they would simply admit that they WERE a PRIVATE industry and stop avoiding their long-overdue taxation and regulation. However, like I said, it does go beyond even that!
Sister Akers made a statement that she "personally thought that the church should allow women to be priests." but when asked whether she was thinking of doing anything about it she said NO! She said that that was "in the hands of God." And so, what this means, is that she was fired for expressing her first amendment right to freedom of speech, DESPITE the fact that she had no intention of acting on her opinion.
Also... Yes, the church is a business... yet, when the corporate pig CEOS at Enron lied to the public about the fact that their company was dying fast and escaped with "golden parachutes," they were put on trial and were forced to be accountable for their actions. [All except one, who committed suicide before his trial could begin].
Certainly conspiring in the heinous defiling of 300 European children is FAR worse than financial fraud!!
We barbequed the Enron executives.... but here's a point worth noting...
has ANYONE actually brought the Pope accountalbe for his crimes?

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