Board:   [DoveNet] Religious Discussion/Debate/Evangelism
Subject: Re: Spirituality
From:    Arelor
Date:    Fri Jul 03, 2020 19:11

@VIA: PALANT
  Re: Re: Spirituality
  By: calcmandan to Dennisk on Fri Jul 03 2020 08:06 pm

 > -=> Dennisk wrote to Vk3jed <=-
 >
 >  -=> Vk3jed wrote to Dennisk <=-
 >
 >  -=> On 06-30-20 22:29, Dennisk wrote to Vk3jed <=-
 >
 >  De> The Church is dead because it is no longer a leader, but a follower. Mainstream churches more or less adapt to the
 >  De> changing cultural more of society.  At most, they will resist a little.  When the Church is essentially following
 >  De> Liberalism, then Church becomes nothing of any
 >  De> real meaning.
 >
 >  Vk> This sounds more polirical than theological, and these days, I ignore anything looking remotely like US politics.
 >
 >  De> No, it is theological, not political.  Political Correctness/Wokeness
 >  De> is a religion.
 >
 > Of the worst kind. More cultish in my view.
 >
 > Daniel Traechin
 >
 > ... Visit me at gopher://gcpp.world

Politics and religion always end up interwingled so badly...

This reminds me once I was doing some unformal research about Islam's views on slavery. I reached a forum where somebody was
asking if it was legit in the eyes of Alah to have sex with war slaves. According to their scriptures, it totally is, but
somebody popped up explaining why it was not ok according to Allah.

The whole situation struck me as "Hmmm.... ok, our religion endorses behavior that is not politically sustainable, so I am
going to come up with a way to override our scriptures in order to make our religion politically correct."

I agree with Dennisk here since the Catholic church has been doing something similar since the middle ages. If you have decided
in a coulcil that God wants you to kill homosexuals, if you decide to override such decision because it is
politically ugly you are basically overridingthe word of God for convenience.

But then the debate gets ugly, because you have to check how councils aprove scriptures as valid or reject them, which is a can
of worms in itself.

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