The Current Evolution of Ancient Religious Institutions

[Anomalocaris]

The Catholic Church today is still the same Church that refused the findings of Galileo, insisted that the earth was flat, promoted a geo-centric / heliocentric view of the universe, refuted Darwinism and believed that the earth was 5500 years old etc.
 
  Today the church seems to be embracing all of these scientific theories as being a part of “the Divine Plan”.
 
   Another issue that is being resolved in a very humane manner is the issue of non-heterosexuals within the religious institutions. Now they are even giving permission to priests to baptize the children of same-sex couples and seems to be encouraging their participation in various religious ceremonies.
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/vatican-allow...43215.html
 
This reminds me of the character of Eric Effiong in the final episode of the UK series called “Sex Education”. Since about 95% of ordinary people believe in the Divine in one way or another, it doesn’t seem very humane to exclude some people because of their sexual tendencies and/or choices.

the problem with religious institutions is they exist for the purpose of allowing a few to rule over the many by exploiting ignorance and cognitive defects common in humans and hoisting upon the gullible assertions supportive of the authority of the few built upon fraudulent stories of knowledge and revelation.     In this no matter how they evolve they can not change because changing would nullify the central reason for existence of religious institutions.

RCC opposition to heliocentric nature of solar system or evolutionary nature of life on earth would be irrelevant if the livehoof and influence of its priesthood didn’t also depend upon hoisting upon the gullible the racket of “there is no salvation outside the church” built upon the implicitly and inescapably misanthropic notion of humanity needing the kind of salvation christianity peddles. .