In Florida, there is an overseas highway that goes from the mainland to Key West. The highway bridges connect the little islands that stretch between the mainland and Key West the final island, going over the Atlantic Ocean for like 130 miles.
The bridges were originally completed in like 1920 for use as railroad, not as a highway for cars. A hurricane came in like 1926 and damaged the tracks. When they fixed the bridges, they converted them to vehicle traffic exclusively. In order to do that they had to place outriggers on the narrow (designed for only railroad track) bridges, and thus they could build roads on the bridges. The road though was very narrow. I road on it as a young man, and when an 18 wheel tractor trailer would come from the other direction on the bridge, you would slow down and hold on for a big shaking and a scary visual squeeze. That was alright, hardly anyone used the highway back then only people who liked to go fishing in the Keys.
The building of the highway had been a construction/engineering wonder. It withstood the tide flows, and salt for all those years. However, 50 years later, the "new and improved" (or so they thought they were) engineers said it would be cheaper to build a new highway, than to keep paying for maintenance repairs on the old bridges.
Therefore, in early 1980's they built a new wider "better engineered" highway. As I saw the new highway being built, I observed the contrast between the old bridges (which were never removed, and can still be seen today), and the new ones. The new ones were like toothpicks compared to the massive old bridges. They changed everything, they basically said "The old people didn't know what to expect and they overbuilt the bridges. We today we are wiser, we have better engineering skills".
Seven years after they built the new highway, the maintenance on them had started to become more expensive than what it had cost to maintain the old bridges after they were 50 years old. The biggest problem was that the reinforcing rods (rebar) in the underwater concrete foundations (and pillars) were rusting at an outrageously fast pace. The rebar was spalding, that is exploding the concrete, cracking it from the rusting like popcorn of the rebar. The bridges were in great danger from this, since it relied of engineering rather than bulk as the old bridges did. If a column went, there was big trouble.
Bottom line, the new and improved engineers didn't respect the old timers. The new engineers thought that they were smarter. The new engineers ignored the past experiences of the others that came before them, and they just ended up learning themselves why the old timers did it the way they did.
"Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it".
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What Does That Have to do With Catholicism?
I think it is a good analogy. Since like the 1940's till today, the Catholics (you can forget about the rest of the world, and its millions of "religions", they never had the true faith) have lost their foundations, they have "forgotten how things were built", and went on to build "a new and improved religion". They completed it in the 1960's, and it immediately collapsed and required constant maintenance.
The new keys bridges, the new catholic "faith", the new and improved engineers, the new and improved progressivist clergy. “Misma mierda, diferent envase”. (Spanish expression, that translates to: Same dung, different packaging")
If you want to learn the faith, you have to trace it back to what "the old timers learned". Every new generation does not have to learn it by making the same mistakes all over again.
Go back to the 1850's and back, and you'll find everything as it always was.
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