[Man Against Time]

*rightly disregarding everything PeterAngelo said again*

The Church (and Im assuming you mean the Catholic one) is dying because it sold itself to the whims of modern losers. They stopped doing the Latin Mass, lost most of their Traditional ritual structure in favor of protestant style pandering to morality, offed the dress codes, introduced guitars (that is sad), the list goes on. They did this because in the 60s a lot of very weak, very godless people complained that it was toooo rigid, all this tradition. So they dumped it all. They turned it into a drive-thru industry where you can come and dump your guilt off once a week.

Obviously, the people more inclined to being religious lost faith in the church and stopped caring about it. They took it less seriously because it took them less seriously. The weak and godless rabble who complained also stopped going once they realized the Church rolled over for them. Their pointless revelry in rebellion was no fun anymore. It should have been predicted that these people would lose faith in the Church regardless of the path it took (modern reformation vs maintaining its structure). The fact that they revolted against women wearing hats, for example, shows that they are obviously not interested in going to Church whatsoever, and care nothing for any connection to a living tradition with rituals, and want only to feel liek a part of something while feeling like they make a difference.

It was wrong to pander to this very fickle and stupid mob, because now the truer followers are left out in the cold, and the fickle and stupid mob has predictably found something else to be fickle and stupid about.