AS THE WORLD TURNS

I am not sure about the veracity of the hoary old myth that states; prior to the Bolshevik revolution the Church hierarchy (the Bishops) had neglected their duties to such an extent that they spent their final days debating how many angels could dance on the head of a pin.

I am sure the whole point of tales such as these was to illustrate that the Church had lost all relevance to everyday life and history appears to indicate that that was indeed the case. I am also convinced that a similar irrelevance has gripped the Western worldview today.

Those who have been given the responsibility of nurturing and maintaining almost two thousand years of hard-won freedoms and traditions; i.e. the Politicians of the West (the new world 'priesthood'), have neglected their responsibilities to the point where apparatchiks and commissars are more interested in debating how many definitions of sexual identity can be included on an official form...thus making the bishops earlier digressions seem sane by comparison.

And perhaps the result of such neglect will indeed see history repeating itself.