reading Mircea Eliade, can't remember the title. along with a cool name, he has a good perspective. albeit with some cultural baggage, but you don't be avoiding that too easily. the Boston Archdiocese just trimmed a bunch of churches, in what amounts to a business deal. underproducing franchises. the parishioners who were interviewed on tv were all at least 60. the church doesn't grab the younger generation. what holds the older is the social construct rather than spiritual claims. I'll have to search out a line from Eliade, leans right on the point. a change of world view. the rampant abuse in the church, and the heinous cover up surely illustrates dire holes in the superstructure. and the church just sounds liek another scrambling business with lay offs and store closings. I'm not yanking the Catholic church particularly, of the Unitarian that I grew up in seems thoroughly pointless except as a social vehicle. it's for those who don't want to sleep late on sundays.