The Body of Christ could use some Ex Lax

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I think this could apply to some Anglican churches (and other groups) as well. From the Enlightened Catholicism blog, some inspiring use of metaphor:

Roman Catholicism really is showing the signs of a collective organism which is being poisoned by it's own waste products.  The Vatican bureaucracy with it's emphasis on sacred tradition and creeping infallibility is serving as a cork backing up the whole system.  Living systems die when they can't eliminate their waste products.  The Body of Christ needs either a good dose of Ex Lax or the cork removed.  The sixty four million dollar question is who is going to serve as the proctologist?

Benediction for 3/06/11

From the Reverend Jonathan Hagger...

If you buy a single nowadays, especially if it is a dance track, the chances are that it will have on it not only the original recording but also various remixes. I expect for the record companies and the artists this makes good commercial sense because, as different people like different styles, it increases the number of copies of the record that they will sell.

Perhaps in our postmodern world the emergent, Christian church could use this music industry phenomenon to understand and relate to the other religions of the world. In stead of viewing other faiths as completely different products maybe we should accept them, and ourselves even, as remixed versions of the original track. A mashed up God for a smashed up world. If we only understood that we are all dancing to the same tune, albeit different versions of the same tune, perhaps our race would be in a better position to repair the damage we have caused.