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Originally posted by Sebatianos@Apr 4 2005, 10:17 PM
I know, but should the church change to suit the immorality of people?
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Some principles, like the the imposed abstinence from sex for example, are bound to fail right from the start. You can't force the public to forsake such basic instincts by threatening with eternal punishment, people will just continue doing what they always have done, although not as openly, but they will, there's no stopping that.
And the Church actually has changed over the years. Seeing how they continuously lost popularity (and alongside that, their power), they had to loosen their laws. The Church nowadays isn't the same Church it was 500 years ago. Thanks God. No pun intended.
Oh, and I will not even start to denounce the hypocrisy of preaching one thing, but doing the complete opposite within one's own ranks, to prevent another escalation of this topic.