The Secular Church

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“About half of Norway's first-born children are born to single mothers, and polls show that most Norwegians do not care that Miss Hoiby is a single mother or that the couple chose to live together in an Oslo flat before marrying.
This is despite the fact that when Crown Prince Haakon succeeds King Harald, he will become head of the state Lutheran church, which opposes cohabitation outside matrimony.”
I often wonder how it is that so many people assume that the rules of a church are so flexible. The prevailing attitude among secular people is, “since we do not like the rules the way they are, we will disregard them and if we do it long enough they will change.” Actually I saw that happen at Bible College, and more and more people are taking that same attitude into church with them. Custom and mores are always right even if they were made up on the spot. Tradition is always to be questioned.
Church should be different. By attending church, every church that I know of, one is saying that one believes in absolutes. I know that is news to a lot of church folk but there it is. God is Holy. He said “be holy, as I am !” That is The Absolute Universal Norm and all the laws and rules and ethics and customs and mores of church flow from there.
How could Prince Haakon become the head of a church? How could Prince Charles? Wasn’t it the Kaiser who said “I know Germans and I know Americans but I do not know German-American”. Something like that. For real there is no such thing as a secular church. That is no oxymoron. It is just plain moron.