Roman Catholic

Journal Entry: 12-26-2011 I was raised Roman Catholic and have long been a lapsed Catholic. I am a religious anarchist as well as a free market anarchist and political anarchist. In ecclesiastical terms, decentralization of religious authority distributes power and floods dank, secretive hierarchies with cleansing light and fresh air. By contrast, monolithic, centralized religious hierarchies, administered by a prince like the Pope, often degenerates into a dark, corrupt, anti-progressive institution where local control, independent thought and open inquiry are suppressed. The anarchized religious institutions of tomorrow will be tailor-made for a society of individuator-worshippers. They demand and will be granted complete individual freedom of religion to believe, not to believe, or to chose to what extent or how they will believe, and will select the deity or deities adored by them. Theological investigation and supplication practices must remain private affairs. To survive and remain relevant, American churches must allow believers enormous latitude to pick when and to what degree that they will join or leave the selected denomination. The papacy to the contrary, the future trend is radical democratization of worship, the flattening of ecclesiastical hierarchies, and utter local control of the theology of faith and morals. That is the direction that things are headed and self-rule by the local church council or individuators in that vicinity is the way to go.