https://uniting.church/freedom-to-decide-on-marriage/
Progress or division.
Progress or division.
And in other news, the Earth orbits the Sun.I have no idea what's happening
Haha I actually edit a lot of his thread titles.I feel like this thread title is peak brockley and PEWS currently has a migraine because of it
That is one of the features, not a bug, of religions though. To be able to differentiate between fads and permanent attitudinal shifts and then, hopefully, fold the shift into the religion when it reaches a critical mass within the followers.I love when organised religion credits itself with being open-minded and tolerant enough to accept what the general population decided years before it, as if their theology isn't one of the things leaving them trailing behind the rest of us on these issues, in the first place.
Talk about cafeteria Christians. Yes, adopt the new viewpoint when it becomes difficult to continue opposing it. Aren't we progressive.....At least if they refused you could credit them being earnest and serious about their vulgar bigotry as theologically consistent.
Oh it's definitely a feature of religion no doubt. To say one thing for hundreds or thousands of years, and then disavow or minimise it when it becomes politically or socially expedient to do so. To say this isn't also a bug, is fatuous. Of course it is. Christianity in any traditional sense is anti-gay, regardless of how many of its adherents belatedly condone homosexuality or gay marriage. For them to say or imply it's their religion which paved the path for this institutional change is absurd. It's precisely the opposite.That is one of the features, not a bug, of religions though. To be able to differentiate between fads and permanent attitudinal shifts and then, hopefully, fold the shift into the religion when it reaches a critical mass within the followers.
In some ways (not all), that's a good thing. It means change is brought about by the people and it is not brought about for the people by an institution.But the problem is religions hold back progress in the way. It is only when things come to a head and progress can no longer be halted that you see such a shift.
Even though the institution claims to base its ethic on revealed truth specifically designed to inform our morality.In some ways (not all), that's a good thing. It means change is brought about by the people and it is not brought about for the people by an institution.