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Originally Posted by Chris
Well, therein lies the problem Marty ... religions, in one way or another, claim to say something about God (or gods), what he/she/they are like, and what we should do about it.
If the idea of a religion is to focus people on God, in what way should the religion 'change'? After all, in your view it's society that has changed, not God.
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That question opens up more questions imo Chris .
Is modern religion (in your opinion) there to tell us how to do the will of god/s as laid down in a holy book ,or to guide us in how we should live our lives morally? .
If the latter then it is up to religion to change with society ,meeting changes in equality between the sexes for example,you must agree that inequality between sexes/people is wrong ,does that mean that god is wrong ?.
If religion is purely to guide us in worship of a particular deity as laid down with no compromise to his laws then in theory society should be as it was 2000 years ago because religion and society have always gone hand in hand so if religion doesn't change then nor should society,but society has changed and i suppose to some extent so has religion but not to the same degree ,religions seem to struggle when it comes to meeting modern societies demands.Is that because religion see's progress as against the will of god and therefore wrong or is it just a plain and simple power thing enforced by the male rulers of religions