(October 31, 2015 at 7:00 pm)blahman212 Wrote: In recent years most mainstream Religions have changed in one way or another to suit modern society better. This has happened in the past obviously, but more recently issues such as gay marriage have seen more attention and overall then shift has been positive and is well on it's way for minorities such as these not being excluded and segregated.
My question, is, however, who can we credit with these positive changes? Does it come from external pressure causing theists to change or is it from inside, people taking what could be seen as a more philanthropic view and deciding that is the route their religion should be taking?
Positive changes ??
Acknowledging God punted some topic earlier and it's been fixed now via the agency of the church hierarchy slapping a band-aid on it is in fact the church (willingly) falsifying it's tenets. In other words, the church poobahs know better than God.
While this is indeed a positive development for atheism, it certainly is bad from a big picture perspective for the religion monkeying around with it's scriptures.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
