“I demand you work for free”: the main reason Western Buddhism has stagnated for 30 years and will soon die. Thread:https://twitter.com/VincentHorn/status/872435755691495424 …
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Replying to @Meaningness
Christian collapse in middle class also partly because smart creative people no longer see preaching as feasible career. From
@DouthatNYT:pic.twitter.com/SffIOaqMgM
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Replying to @Meaningness @DouthatNYT
the "no sex" part already filters such people out of the Catholic priesthood. The vocation is another "world" for precisely this reason
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clerical vows are useful pieces of social technology that hedge against changes in context and taste.
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Replying to @robert_mariani @DouthatNYT
This functioned well half a century ago, but I gather Catholic Church has critical shortage of priests. Sacrificing reality to principle?
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Replying to @Meaningness @DouthatNYT
my point is that it functions perennially. People wanted sex/families/money 200 yrs ago too. only money changed, other variables did not
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Replying to @robert_mariani
Yes; but insisting that this change doesn’t matter may be dooming the Church in rich countries.
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Replying to @Meaningness
I'm just saying it matters less when being a cleric is a vocation (with vows) instead of mere employment
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Replying to @robert_mariani
I see your point, but my understanding is that the Catholic Church has much more of a problem attracting clergy than Protestant ones.
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I am an outsider (never Christian) though, so I don’t follow the issue closely.
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