Jim Shanks (SFT, January 26) laments the changing of the Roman Catholic Mass by the decrees of the Second Vatican Council in 1962. He seems to think that this change is the cause of the falling off of church attendance and will lead to the demise of the church.
In the first forty years of the establishment of Christianity, the movement took off with the speed of lighting and was upsetting the social, economic and political systems of the day. In short, it was turning the world upside down. Its adherents were suffering persecutions and the more persecution, the more the movement progressed.
Any movement which is a threat to the prevailing world system, if it can’t be terminated by force, it will be put out of business by infiltration and white-anting from within. This is what has happened to Christianity.
After the deaths of its founders (Christ and the Apostles) the religion developed into a ticket to heavenly bliss, or conversely, to a fiery eternal torture pit for the not so “righteous”.
Today’s Christianity is seen as being irrelevant to the needs of the times and of little consequence. Until it gets back to the ideals of its founders it will continue to wither and die.
Jay Nauss
Glen Aplin
