This piece is . . . remarkable, in every sense of the word. I'm thinking now of all the institutions that struggle to maintain reproduction without natality, without surprise. Is the "secularization" of society - an evil if you listen to conservative homilists - a subconscious response to the entrapment by the institutional Church of its members in this ongoing process of reproduction without natality, without change? A process that is ultimately ineffectual in meeting the needs of the times, and in denial of historical fact and scientific truth?
Thank you for this reply. I really like the way you are pressing the question into the practical real for church communities, and I think your analysis is correct. Churches and other nonprofits are 100% locked into the reproduction of the current economic system (our funding comes from the “excess” that capitalism generates, by definition). It is very hard to critique a system upon which one depends. Thank you again for your response!
This piece is . . . remarkable, in every sense of the word. I'm thinking now of all the institutions that struggle to maintain reproduction without natality, without surprise. Is the "secularization" of society - an evil if you listen to conservative homilists - a subconscious response to the entrapment by the institutional Church of its members in this ongoing process of reproduction without natality, without change? A process that is ultimately ineffectual in meeting the needs of the times, and in denial of historical fact and scientific truth?
Thank you for this reply. I really like the way you are pressing the question into the practical real for church communities, and I think your analysis is correct. Churches and other nonprofits are 100% locked into the reproduction of the current economic system (our funding comes from the “excess” that capitalism generates, by definition). It is very hard to critique a system upon which one depends. Thank you again for your response!