Well, I think they seem to cherry pick which things they want to enforce. According to the Bible it's okay to sell your daughters into slavery as long as it's not to someone from the same village. Don't see anyone setting up an auction house for that now!
But also, it's about what people are taught. As an ex-Christian it's scary to see how many of my seeming innocuous childhood beliefs were really indoctrination. So don't be too harsh. They just don't see outside the box...yet : ) xx
I think you're right about the teaching. So much of what is taught in many churches is cultural and legalistic more than spiritual and gracious (in the old sense of the world).
I could go off on a long, long tangent, but I'm a semi-ex Christian (agnostic and very pluralistic) who used to be in a very conservative denomination that I joined in college and stuck with for about five years after. So if I'm harsh, some of it is kicking my own self in the rear for being such an idiot for so long.
That said, I can say from experience that minds can change, but it's a scary process because changing on one thing means opening up to change on so, so many others - up to and including what ones sees as the basic tenets of faith. I think its why so many fundamentalists (of ANY kind, not just Christian or even religious) tend to double-down at first when challenged. It's not so much that they disbelieve as they're protecting their sense of self.
(Is it wine time yet? It needs to be wine time...)
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Date: 2015-04-05 02:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-04-05 02:44 pm (UTC)Insane is really correct.
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Date: 2015-04-05 02:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-04-05 05:00 pm (UTC)But also, it's about what people are taught. As an ex-Christian it's scary to see how many of my seeming innocuous childhood beliefs were really indoctrination. So don't be too harsh. They just don't see outside the box...yet : ) xx
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Date: 2015-04-05 08:03 pm (UTC)I could go off on a long, long tangent, but I'm a semi-ex Christian (agnostic and very pluralistic) who used to be in a very conservative denomination that I joined in college and stuck with for about five years after. So if I'm harsh, some of it is kicking my own self in the rear for being such an idiot for so long.
That said, I can say from experience that minds can change, but it's a scary process because changing on one thing means opening up to change on so, so many others - up to and including what ones sees as the basic tenets of faith. I think its why so many fundamentalists (of ANY kind, not just Christian or even religious) tend to double-down at first when challenged. It's not so much that they disbelieve as they're protecting their sense of self.
(Is it wine time yet? It needs to be wine time...)