People used to hate the Church when She disagreed with them. Now, they just don’t care.
Because she is irrelevant.
The Catholic Church will never be irrelevant; and do realize that among the bad there are the good, whom you seem to disregard. Also realize that there were, are, and always will be hypocrites, liars, thieves, traitors, and all sorts of scoundrels among both the clergy and the laity; these are the wolves and the weeds that Scripture warned will always be among the flock. But the problem is that there will also always been the self-righteous who judge others by the specific sins from which they personally abstain.
Due to her own embrace of the materialistic lifestyle in the West, why should anyone, gay or straight look to the Church for truth when she is living, practically speaking, by faith in Mammon?
I know plenty of people in the Church, members of the clergy, laity and religious alike who are not the people you are describing. I think the problem is that you are going around looking at everyone with a magnifying glass to point out their personal sins, when you should turn the magnifying glass on yourself to see what you find? We are all called to do that. I think you will discover that maybe you aren’t any better than most of the people you condemn. Thus the need to love the sinner and hate the sin.
I go against him for the same reasons I went against Clinton: deceptive character, arrogance, condescending towards religious belief, and a litany of other unrepentant sins and attitudes.
I think it goes without saying that you would much rather live under a pagan emperor who did not persecute ͏y͏o͏u than one that did, despite their sinfulness. Would you rather live under Marxism with all your rights removed, or Capitalism, with all of its foibles? I think we know the answer.
A fellow was stuck on his rooftop in a flood. He was praying to God for help.
Soon a man in a rowboat came by and the fellow shouted to the man on the roof, “Jump in, I can save you.”
The stranded fellow shouted back, “No, it’s OK, I’m praying to God and he is going to save me.”
So the rowboat went on.
Then a motorboat came by. "The fellow in the motorboat shouted, “Jump in, I can save you.”
To this the stranded man said, “No thanks, I’m praying to God and he is going to save me. I have faith.”
So the motorboat went on.
Then a helicopter came by and the pilot shouted down, “Grab this rope and I will lift you to safety.”
To this the stranded man again replied, “No thanks, I’m praying to God and he is going to save me. I have faith.”
So the helicopter reluctantly flew away.
Soon the water rose above the rooftop and the man drowned. He went to Heaven. He finally got his chance to discuss this whole situation with God, at which point he exclaimed, “I had faith in you but you didn’t save me, you let me drown. I don’t understand why!”
To this God replied, “I sent you a rowboat and a motorboat and a helicopter, what more did you expect?”
