in todays world has the church lost touch with reality (13)

Oh oh, now you treading where angels fear to tread! Methinks!

Okay okay, stop the bickering... and lets get on with the subject here....

Has the church lost touch with reality? I`d say they never were in touch with reality to begin with, therefore they could not lose touch with it. After all, churches deal with the spiritual side of life, not reality. They took over from all the great village Shamans, those guys who waved feathers around, blew dust in your face, spoke to rocks, and predicted death, all that sort of stuff.
Now people still need their spiritual care, they need someone to send their dead off with incantations, they need spiritual blessings on marriage unions, to call down blessings from heaven on their new-borns, to conduct weekly ceremonies of worship, etc etc.

However... they also deal in reality at times, especially when the roof of the temple begins leaking and needs fixing, or their multitudes have increased and they need a larger building, or the Shaman needs new transport.... So I wouldnt say they have lost touch COMPLETELY with reality. Its just that at times it appears so, but thats only because all is well, and they not in need. When they in need you get to hear more about reality.

Nah Wedward, you getting confused with Politicians I think!
If the churches all combined (REALY! They fight each other now, what would happen if they COMBINED!) and sold off their assets, and conducted their "Services" under an old Oak tree.... what exactly would be their incentive to continue?
Looks to me, in my humble uneducated view, that the greatest incentive these days, for churches, and especially if some bright new spark began a NEW one, is to cajole all the filthy lucre out the patrons pockets... to subsidise the new jet, new bigger better building, the wifes shoe collection, all those mundane things that make life worth living.
Another thing I just thought of.... we forgetting those guys who are "Missionaries"... the ones who dont actually work... who go out and live in exotic foreign lands, and convert those unbelievers in their particular religion and then make them work so they also earn money, and then extract THAT filthy lucre out their pockets to subsidise MORE missionaries.. to go into the rain-forests and convert the pigmy head-hunters from their way of life, build them tin shacks and a supermarket, so THEY now got to work (catching and selling the rain-forest birds) and earn money to subsidise more missionaries..... and on and on and on and on.... I`m running out of space now... so got to stop!