02-23-2007, 05:29 PM
Bismillah
"Your judgements are purely subjective (aspects you disapprove of). I'm starting to think you had a bad experience with the Church & are now holding a grudge."
If that can be said of me, then the same can be said of you.
"There's a difference between ecclesiastical tradition (more examples include: Communion in the hand, altar servers, extraordinary ministers, fasting obligations, etc) & Sacred Tradition (the revealed teachings of Christ handed on in the Church from the time of the Apostles & proclaimed to the fullest extent by the Church's authority). The former can be modified, the latter are set in stone until the end."
That's the thing... these changes all are involved in worship. If the church sees no problem in altering worship, that is it's prerogative. In Islam, the only one who can change acts of wroship is Allah. You will not see some muslims coming together and deciding that since Hajj is so big that going around the Kaba' seven times is too much so now only three times is okay.