Call me cynical if you like, I fear it’s more the case that those in power want a “church” without the hard parts. “Give us that nice warm feeling of community and the desire to help others, but leave out an authority higher than our own or a personal responsibility that supercedes that you owe to the government.” This is something we see again and again, an attempt to take Jesus out of the Church, to give us a God who is neither Love nor Holiness but only a vaguely good thing.