Comments on: The Latest Affront to Catholicity

By: Sue

Sue — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 01:39:23 +0000

Religious consumerism rules!

According to Wiki there are now well over 30,000 Christian denominations, sects and sub-sects in the world.

Speaking of the GOP, I would say that it is now essentially psychotic in its “character”. Especially as benighted crazies such as Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, Coulter, and yes Sarah Palin are now leading spokes-persons for what is now called “conservative” in the USA.

Brought to one and all by Fox “news”.

What is worse is that so called conservative religious groups and outfits are also supportive of these benighted ranters.

By: Steve Duby

Steve Duby — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:55:33 +0000

I would agree that there are problems with the church aligning itself with the Republican agenda, but I think it’s safe to say that there are also plenty of Christians who have taken to the Democratic agenda and seem to think that the church qua the church has a responsibility to support that agenda.

At any rate, I think Horton is at this point focused more on the problems with separating generations of believers based on traditional vs. contemporary worship services, youth group, etc.

By: Brettongarcia

Brettongarcia — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:43:49 +0000

On target. Especially offensive are the conservative/Republican churches, Protestant and Catholic both.

The Bible never told us to “Vote Republican”; but plenty of conservative media networks, from Pat Robertson’s CBN, to EWTN/EWRN’s conservative “Catholicism,” assure us implicitly, that it did.

A true, ecumenist catholicism, WOULD be helpful here.

In general, media analysts think that it all stems from the 1980′s proliferation of media outlets. Which resulted in “narrow-casting” instead of broadcasting: appealing to very small niche markets. Which means that many people can and do, often, fall down a very, very narrow rabbit hole.