(October 14, 2014 at 12:32 pm)genkaus Wrote: Aye - but it should be more systematic rather than picking whatever "feels" right.
Nonbelievers can do that, because we can judge a religious idea on its own merits. It requires conscious awareness of the cherry-picking though, which would cause a cognitive dissonance embolism in a believer, I think. So cultural values have to be transmitted to religious interpretations unconsciously. I'm afraid we're stuck with cherry-picking based on whatever feels right. The most we can do is shift the culture in the direction we want the religious to follow.
That method is pretty effective. I'm sure that in 20 years, Christians will be taking credit for gay marriage, and will cite scripture to back it up.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
