In an open letter on the state of the church and priestly ministry in Germany, a group of 11 German priests from the Cologne archdiocese have urged the church to open the priesthood to both men and women and to make priestly celibacy voluntary.
Organizations form in K, and the K-strategists who form them try to imbue them with K, because deep down they know that keeping them K is important to their function and survival. As times go on, and the greater society grows r-selected in the face of the success and ease produced by K, increasingly so do the members of the organization grow r. Now r-selected, they begin to try and change the rules to favor more rabbit-like psychologies.
Conservatives are called conservative because they try to conserve what was, in the face of r-change. Leftists are not associated with conservation of anything, because when the Apocalypse comes, they are not afforded that luxury. Once K-selection arrives, the leftists are lit with Darwinian fire, and their ashes are blown away by the wind in very short order.
None of the rabbits know why they do it, and more than the K-strategists know why they prefer K. Nobody knows it is r/K Selection. As in the rest of life, and all of history, they are all little robots simply following their programming, each thinking they are “right” and everyone else is wrong.
And so the play continues, playing them same scenes over and over, without ever really ending.
[…] Rabbitry Grows In The Church […]
Interesting idea I’d not considered before. I’m a retired United Methodist pastor, and United Methodists have had both married clergy and female clergy for a long time. UM pastors are also stereotypically progressive politically. (On taking a Republican ballot once in a church I served, I was told I was the first pastor of that church to do so in a hundred years.) The also-married pastor of our current church also mentioned voting Republican this year, and I’m aware of some Roman Catholic priests who reliably vote for Democrats, so it would be interesting to see if celibacy is statistically associated with either r or K.
There is a supernatural element as well:
https://empathological.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/into-the-maw-of-the-matriarchy/
Judgement begins at the house of God and many so called churches will be shown to be not of God as they are consumed.
Though more than a century old, Max Weber’s notions of bureaucratization come into play, here. Lets rework his ideas to fit your r/K vocabulary…
1) K-selected rulers are strong, idiosyncratic, individualistic and capable of seeing subjects as individuals. Think of a king who can rule justly, adjusting punishments for a crime to fit the person and moment; or, perhaps, a king who forgives taxes or regulations for some, but not all. The point is that under a king, each subject is a person and not a citizen subsumed to a bureaucracy.
2) r-selected individuals reside in bureaucracies: they prefer rationalized, demeaning, “de-personalized,” regimented and profoundly alienating political structures. Mere citizens are cogs in the machine, subject to rules. Justice is meted out according to these rules, with no regard to particular circumstance, motive or need.
3) Weber seems to think that once a bureaucracy exists, nothing short of revolution will get rid of it. If this is the case, Trump’s efforts are futile. However, if Weber is wrong, K-selected individuals will thrive.