Part one here.
We've broken down nearly every sexual barrier in society and yet the real criteria of the damned are those who commit this certain category of sexual crime. That becomes behaviourly the greatest crime of all. Where does that come from? When on the other side of coin we've taken the cap off everything -- Planned Parenthood is handing out condoms in junior high school. The hypocrisy that goes along with this is the same kind of hypocrisy that religion got painted with for centuries. Particularly we're all aware of the terrible scandals within the Catholic Church. But you know one of the most brutal instruments of pointing this out to us is the New York Times. And yet in the NY Times book section there is a glowing review of a "beautiful book", they say, of an older man in Ireland introducing two fifteen-year olds to the homosexual life. And isn't this a beautiful love story, they say. What hypocrisy! What hypocrisy. And yet that very notion of hypocrisy that religon always got painted with for its self-righteousness, is now painted in broad strokes in the political arena today. So that whereas before we could tell a Protestant from a Catholic by the way they talked about faith, just like we can tell a Democrat from a Republican by the way they talk about politics, that what has happened - and Weber is absolutely correct, I think - is that somehow or other religion now, now that we've made it, there's no need for religion now.
I think this is what Benedict talks about. Weber said that what begins to happen is that man becomes dominated by acquision and the making of money...And when we face this crisis, which is what Benedict is facing.
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