Reaching back to the expulsion of The Hebrews from Egypt, Moses was confronted with various factions disputing his leadership, from the moment the 40,000 left Egypt until his death.
The institutional church has been polarised by so called schisms since the time of the Emperor Constantine, who attempted to introduce some order into the competing "sees" and "visions" representing early Christianity.
The great schism of 1054 AD between the Western, and Eastern Sees is usually referenced by the Filioque issue, whereas in reality the division was the result of the collapse of Rome's political, and military power...and the flourishing of the Eastern Roman Empire, morphed into the Byzantine Empire centred in Constantinople.
Pope Emeritus Benedict's opinion of some fifty years ago on the future of the institutional church did not foresee the consequences of the clerical abuse scandals an ongoing daily reality.
When I read the following day journalist reports on my football team's (Liverpool FC) latest game I recognise that each journalist writes their report with a priori prejudice. In other words each newspaper report will share the same game result, with the rest of the reports, subject to the bias of each reporter watching the same game.
I have learned, and am learning that religious discussion boards are as much a political force saturated with their puppet masters, and sock puppets as are those newspaper readers' comments filled with input from Putinbots influencing elections in the USA, Germany, Italy, and the referendum in the UK. In an age of false news, and politically driven agendas it is wise to be sceptical of those offering remedies that appear to offer a return to an earlier, cleaner, purer church...that never was.
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