Respecting Christian family and friends

[watchamadoodle]

Being unable to adapt to new technology because you're rigidly stuck using old stuff makes you irrelevant in the job force.

Being rigid on your social attitudes makes you unable to adapt to changing climes, making you irrelevant as anything but a laughing stock, except maybe to a select few.

The increase in acceptance of gay marriage can be cited as an example. Just because socially rigid fuckers exist doesn't mean they're increasing the pool of people who hate gays. Quite the opposite - the people who hate gays are dying off or changing.

EDIT: I clearly shouldn't be on this forum on only one cup of coffee when I make grammatical errors like the one I just fixed. Fuck.

That is a good point. I'm not sure what I think.

Based on Pew Forum surveys the only growing denomination in the US is the Pentecostals. The flexible denominations like the Episcopalians are soon to be extinct. People respect Episcopalian ideas, but those ideas dilute the intensity of devotion and make it easier for Episcopalians to become non-religious.

The hell doctrine is apparently essential to Christianity's survival. Christian Forum doesn't allow people to discuss universalism. CARM bans universalists (along with satanists).

(I was indoctrinated as an Episcopalian, so the hell doctrine was rarely mentioned. It has still been difficult for me to leave Christianity, so I know Christianity can find other ways to retain members. Still I think hell is useful for Christianity.)