Really? Different strategies don’t include teaching that black people were descended from Cain? Putting women in the pulpit? Allowing homosexual people to be members of the Christian church, the figurative body of Christ? This has nothing to do with accommodating the human condition and you know it. Modern religion has become a culturally irrelevant abomination in the eyes of the very deity dictated text it claims to adhere to. It’s attaching historical relevancy to a faith that has little to do with the tenets established 2023 years ago. Either adhere to the text in the Bible or strike out on your own with a new “sacred” codex, but the hypocrisy in modern Christianity is intolerable. At least the Muslim and Judaic faiths stand their ground, stupid as that is. Of course my statement is an oversimplification, the point of this exercise is rhetorical, for the benefit of those reading. While I won’t address the myriad technical difficulties Christianity has, the macro view from outside the religious box should be a clear enough view of the flawed logic in the whole system, unless there is some mitigating factor making a person need the structure and security of a religious framework. I have no problem with the function of religious dogma, just don’t assert this ideal as factual truth, and certainly don’t condemn others for not buying into your faith.
Discussion
I'm going to respectfully bow out at this point. We've shifted topics too much to cover any point of contention in sufficient detail to be worthwhile. I hope we can get into some of those specific points in more depth again in the future.
Thanks for taking the time to discuss!
Yes, thank you for your time and efforts toward the discussion as well. I appreciate and respect your views.