Much of it is the media, becuase they don't seem to find church campaigns on social justice etc newsworthy. On the other hand, large sections of the church don't help themselves, as you point out, and it's really quite sickening.
I can't remember hearing a word in living memory about domestic violence, teenage boys fathering children (as opposed to teenage girls giving birth) (and surely an outbreak of teh_gay is an answer to that problem :-)) or the general covetousness that surrounds us
CS Lewis, hardly an icon of socialism or liberalism, pointed this out (with particular reference to the covetousness) about fifty years ago. Unfortunately it's got worse since his day, rather than better. Still, people like Sr Daly make me feel slightly less hopeless about it all... And groups like Church Action on Poverty, or the Iona Community, fight quite a good fight - the trouble is, too few people seem to care.
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Date: 2007-02-05 10:24 pm (UTC)I can't remember hearing a word in living memory about domestic violence, teenage boys fathering children (as opposed to teenage girls giving birth) (and surely an outbreak of teh_gay is an answer to that problem :-)) or the general covetousness that surrounds us
CS Lewis, hardly an icon of socialism or liberalism, pointed this out (with particular reference to the covetousness) about fifty years ago. Unfortunately it's got worse since his day, rather than better. Still, people like Sr Daly make me feel slightly less hopeless about it all... And groups like Church Action on Poverty, or the Iona Community, fight quite a good fight - the trouble is, too few people seem to care.