Liberal Faiths

Priests are clever. They can't easily invert or negate the premises of their religion's beliefs, but they can promote a succession of half-steps and interpretations that inevitably lead to entirely different conclusions than those held since their religion was established.

These are the same people that when tasked with increasing the number of their believers, instead populate their churches with already indoctrinated believers from the third-world. They neither attempt to attract first-worlders to their religion nor fix the conditions that drive first world populations away from marriage and reproduction, but instead contribute to replacing the first-world population.

To meet their short-term quotas, they join the forces of evil and contribute to further disposition and decline, harming the whole in a way that is difficult to undo. For this wickedness, they earn a little personal advantage.

Like politicians, they privatize gains for themselves while creating massive lasting losses for others. They trade the future away and evade responsibility, knowing other problems will distract people from holding them accountable for what they have done.

When faith is liberalized, it does so as an appeal to popularity. A liberal faith only sustains vague resemblances while it justifies and tolerates everything popular that is contrary to its original mission. It has been hijacked; its goal abandoned, now just a vehicle controlled by pirates.

The pews are fuller, but there is no message worth communicating to them.