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The result is a split in the church, between those who want an updated set of values and those who prefer the old set.

Your church doesn't mean anything if you can't keep Those People out?

It is, however, still very much a broad church, with less philosophical baggage than many other languages.

You can walk into almost any church, and there you will find a quiet space where you can meditate/pray.

Caring for others that well is nigh-impossible, but it's the unattainable standard a church strives for.

We tamed the Christian Church - but right now it seems that secularism is under attack.

When you visit a church you see elderly people, and the sick and disabled, the sort of people who need God.

It will be an amalgam of a christian church and a lodge/service organization like Rotary.

It's actually pretty similar to the Church encoding of numbers in the lambda calculus[1].

Paul says as much in his letter to the early church in Corinth [0].

If someone disagrees about gay marriage or another controversial topic, they just start a new church and half the congregation goes there.

After all, no one chooses into which family to be born, and most people don't choose the church they will grow up with, either.

A "good" church community (that seems like a weird phrase, but go with me for a second) would involve people that you might only have passed in the hallway bringing you food, helping out with your other kids, or other chores that you simply don't have the time or energy to do during your emergency state.

There are limitations--non-believers usually can't be part of leadership (one of the reasons being the reason you gave)--but it's part of the Church's mission to bring to goodness of God, community included, to non-believers.