guess that quote!

[JohnT]

Now you have to find a quote and then stay online until someone smart enough to Google it can tell the answer.

Anyway, I'm off to bed. Have a good night, Ben!

[Ben Kenobi]

Although my perception is that they are, I would be willing to hear evidence to the contrary. To be fair, it's difficult to know for sure, considering that Americans move from place to place so often and there has been a big urbanization process going on as well. That said, most of the churches that I have attended have been very well attended, even in the city at English-language masses (spanish-language masses don't seem to be supplanting English-language masses, but rather complementing them). Also, there are lots of churches being built.

There are wrinkles. As AH alludes to, the church's teaching on contraception is widely ignored, even in or especially in the red states. But so far that hasn't seemed to impact church attendance any more than other things in previous generations. The pedophilia scandals greatly negatively impacted the church's moral standing and I'm sure it impacted giving at least temporarily. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that attendance was negatively impacted temporarily too.

Also, as noted, the number of priests and religious has fallen off rather substantially. But I bet that has a lot more to do with no more 4th sons becoming priests, etc. The structure of the post-modern family seems particularly ill-suited to generating priests in great numbers. On the other hand, my brother was in the seminary and left it at the last minute to marry, so undoubtedly there are other issues going on with regard to post-modern life. The priest at my sister's parish just left the priesthood because of what is assumed to be marriage.

Tellingly, at the mass for the pope (attended by Bush), Cardinal McCarrick spent a good half minute praying for new priests and religious. The prayers for new priests keep getting longer and longer...

[Ted Striker]

Are you in the right thread Mister Kenobi?

[Ben Kenobi]

Yes, that is the quote.

[Tuberski]

Ned?

ACK!

[Ben Kenobi]

Nope

[Ted Striker]

Well we know it's not Dinodoc then

[Shi Huangdi]

DanS?

[Hueij]

BK?

[Shi Huangdi]

OK, I got tired of waiting for BK to confirm my answer, so I searched and found this:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=131707&perpage=50&pagenumber=3

confirming myself as right. So, I declare myself the winner.

[Shi Huangdi]

The next quote:

now, now I'm not going to create a repeat of my thread about wanting to play video games rather than have sex. we know that isn't true. But you can't have sex all day (at least I can't), but you can play computer games all day.

My point is sex is something that only lasts a short period of time. Why does our culture focus so much on it? Life is more than sex. It's about socialization, it's about going out and having fun. I don't think humans have sex over 1% of our time, so why does it dominate 75% of our entertainment?

discuss.

[Ben Kenobi]

well pahdon me.

Congrats shi.

[Boris Godunov]

Dissident

[Shi Huangdi]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Dissident

Correct! Good job!

[Boris Godunov]

"What did you think [of my opera], maestro?"

"Oh, it was quite good. I think that some day I shall try to set it to music."