Leave my faith alone - it's sacred to me.

In a discussion the other night with a deeply religious Roman Catholic family member they were making a lot of claims for the progressiveness of Catholic thinking in recent years - eager to stress that the times they were a-changing. Then it occurred me - why should it change? Roman Catholicism is defined by the 2,000 years of history by which it is known. You can't change that, so why even try? Of course one may change oneself - one can choose to be part of it, or not. One can choose to nail one's colours to the mast in which homophobia, misogyny, institutionalised child rape, the definition, persecution & mutilation of non-believers & heretics, and the routine withholding of painkillers from the dying is integral to the theology - OR one can can opt out and join the real world which regards such practice as running contrary to the common good. But for the RCC to CHANGE its very nature - yeah, the very bedrock of its foundation - is an insult to the countless millions who have suffered under its righteous yoke for the past two millennia.