Riots & Brutality - what's the solution?

Originally Posted By Tikiduck

Overreact much?

 

Originally Posted By TomSawyer

1000 years ago?

For 90% of it's history, the church thought slavery was moral. Up until just a few generations ago.

 

Originally Posted By RoadTrip

<<For 90% of it's history, the church thought slavery was moral. Up until just a few generations ago.>>

So did most Americans. You can't live in the past. To do so disparages the wonderful actions taken by Pope Francis.

 

Originally Posted By ecdc

>>So did most Americans. You can't live in the past.<<

The past created and shaped the present, so you can't ignore it.

 

Originally Posted By RoadTrip

<<The past created and shaped the present, so you can't ignore it.>>

True, you should learn from it. And for the most part both this country and Christian religions have. If you are always going to be doomed for past actions, why try to change?

 

Originally Posted By Tikiduck

Nothing against Pope Francis, he is kind of like the 14th Dalai Lama, and seems a genuinely decent fellow.
And kudos to the church for bending with the times and being somewhat reasonable in their worldview.
But it is just this bending that shows the flaws of the original doctrine.
A supposedly perfect book that needs constant revision, and the willful ignorance of multiple passages in order to conform with the modern world.
Still, I will take that over the sheer madness of Islam any day.
But in the end they are all still man made religions.

 

Originally Posted By ecdc

>>And for the most part both this country and Christian religions have.<<

Uhhh...we'll disagree on that. We have made some progress. We have not learned from history much.

 

Originally Posted By TomSawyer

"So did most Americans. You can't live in the past. "

Isn't the church supposed to represent timeless moral truths, instead of the prevailing morality of the time?

 

Originally Posted By Mr X

***Numbers 31: 17-18

17. Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
18. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.***

You mean timeless moral truths like these?

Yikes.

 

Originally Posted By TomSawyer

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