12-29-2019, 03:45 PM
(08-25-2019, 03:20 PM)David Horn Wrote: Should it though? Religion can be revolutionary. Is this an emerging time of change, where the social gospel gets dusted off, and the clergy become social justice leaders? It can play that way again, but it's a long shot.
Not so long a shot with Francis as Pope - a situation I predicted, except that I was one country off (I predicted that a new Pope would come from Brazil, but would be a national liberal just the same: Francis has not budged on either abortion or assisted suicide).
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892