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Chris <c_lumb@one.net.au> wrote in message news:3ae6cef8_1@news01.one.net.au...

> Yes,  they are to blame.

Nothing like what that silly posturing child claimed.

> Someone tell me when Catholics last pioneered major social
> change, eg contraception, equality of women, tolerance of gays,
> acceptance and suggestion of solutions for the drug problem.

Just as true of the vast bulk of the god botherers, not just the catholics.

And with the catholics there is just the tiny matter of
their complete and utter obscenitys with child molesting.

> We have now a college of cardinals all hand picked by "His Holiness".

Not all, some were there before the current arsehole got to do that.

> So the chances of the RC church pulling itself out of the 18th century are nil.

They've always been nil. Thats always been the way those fools worked.
They've resisted very single improvement in society, every single one.
Votes for women, democracy, birth control, much of modern medicine,
end very basic stuff like whether the sun revolves around the earth or
the reverse, let alone any analysis of the scientific evidence on that.

We have managed to stop them burning each other at the stake etc now.
And pointed out to them that they get no say on divorce etc anymore.

> Talk about lack of vision: John Paul 2 has
> set his church up for fading into irrelevance.

Its fading into irrelevance for much more fundamental reasons than that.
The primary reason is that modern first world countrys have organised
things much better than they used to, particularly on welfare and medicine,
and there isnt the same need to govel to some plaster statue anymore.

The real reason that particular packa god botherers will continue
to fade into complete irrelevance is that there are so many more
opportunitys for the sort of people they used to attract as staff.

> Buddhism looks awfully attractive to me!

Just another crutch for pathetically inadequate 'minds'