Posted by Carol on August 08, 2004 at 18:29:49
In Reply to: Re: Life in the Family: Thoughts on Systemic Change posted by Mr. Don on August 08, 2004 at 14:48:22:
While destroying themselves from within, they are also destroying innocent children and vulnerable people like single mothers and people with mental handicaps.
The Roman Catholic Church has been destroying itself from within since well before the Protestant Reformation, and yet it continues to exist.
Corrupt and dangerous religious groups continue to exist because they serve a larger social function. In other words, there are certain laws that govern social organization just as there are certain physical laws that govern the motion of planets.
One of these days, the God of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob may change the laws that govern the motion of planets and the properties of quantum physics, but until that day arrives, the planet will keep turning on its axis and stars will be born and expire.
With the laws that govern social organization, we may also come to the day with the God of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob intervenes with the Second Coming of Christ and the Millenium begins. However, what makes the laws that govern social organization different than those governing planets and quantum particles is this little "wildcard" from the Creator: Human beings have been given something called free will.
While we wait hopefully for the Second Coming, we can actually do something to change those situations of injustice where the innocent are suffering. The question I have tried to address is, What is a prudent course of action with regard to the injustices perpetrated by The Family on its most vulnerable members?