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Suppose you had a baseball player who had become disenchanted with the game. He didn’t like the rules.
One day, he said, “I would consider returning to baseball if they would get rid of the Designated Hitter.” So the DH was eliminated.
Then the player said, “Oh, and I have a bone to pick with the Infield Fly Rule as well.” So the rulemakers listened and tweaked that rule to suit the player’s wishes.
On and on it went. The player had more ideas. How about switching from a diamond-shaped field to a rectangular one, and instead of having “outs” let’s have “downs” - and while we’re at it let’s not switch back and forth with those silly old innings. Let’s have goals and goalposts and have the teams face off and drive the ball back and forth down the field. Oh, and about that ball - round? Really? So old fashioned! Here’s a really cool design for an aerodynamic ball with pointed ends. And now we don’t need bats, so throw them in the dumpster over by the hot dog stand.
An astute observer remarks, “But now it looks like you all are playing football!”
“Oh, no,” says the progressive. “It’s still baseball, we just improved it. Brought it up to date with the times.” Undaunted, the fly in the ointment proceeds to point out, “There’s a football stadium just down the road. Why not just go down there and play all the football you want?” 
Frustrated, the player flung down his helmet and said, “Don’t you get it? We want to play this way, and we’ll call it baseball if we darn well please, because it’s OUR game!” :dts:
And the person started to point out, “But the ones who invented baseball, and have kept it going up till now --” but before he could finish, the progressive shot back, “We don’t listen to them anymore! They don’t know anything about baseball!”
(Apologies to football fans, I don’t mean to insult your game, LOL :curtsey: and hope you don’t mind my using the analogy to demonstrate the illogic of “progressive” Catholic thinking)
One day, he said, “I would consider returning to baseball if they would get rid of the Designated Hitter.” So the DH was eliminated.
Then the player said, “Oh, and I have a bone to pick with the Infield Fly Rule as well.” So the rulemakers listened and tweaked that rule to suit the player’s wishes.
On and on it went. The player had more ideas. How about switching from a diamond-shaped field to a rectangular one, and instead of having “outs” let’s have “downs” - and while we’re at it let’s not switch back and forth with those silly old innings. Let’s have goals and goalposts and have the teams face off and drive the ball back and forth down the field. Oh, and about that ball - round? Really? So old fashioned! Here’s a really cool design for an aerodynamic ball with pointed ends. And now we don’t need bats, so throw them in the dumpster over by the hot dog stand.
An astute observer remarks, “But now it looks like you all are playing football!”
“Oh, no,” says the progressive. “It’s still baseball, we just improved it. Brought it up to date with the times.” Undaunted, the fly in the ointment proceeds to point out, “There’s a football stadium just down the road. Why not just go down there and play all the football you want?” Frustrated, the player flung down his helmet and said, “Don’t you get it? We want to play this way, and we’ll call it baseball if we darn well please, because it’s OUR game!” :dts:
And the person started to point out, “But the ones who invented baseball, and have kept it going up till now --” but before he could finish, the progressive shot back, “We don’t listen to them anymore! They don’t know anything about baseball!”
(Apologies to football fans, I don’t mean to insult your game, LOL :curtsey: and hope you don’t mind my using the analogy to demonstrate the illogic of “progressive” Catholic thinking)
so they’re still staying away. Which they should (or at least not receive sacraments) until they can submit their wills to the Church and mean it.