We can Count on One Thing in Christianity: It will Change


The Sin of the Week in Christianity changes so often it's a little hard to keep up. It seems like just yesterday the most grave of sins was same-sex marriage. It's still not approved of by some branches but it has fallen out of favor as a favorite issue to bash others with. Now the Pope says priests can bless gay individuals about to be married. 

What has taken its place on the Sin Leader Board is trans. Conservative preachers/priests cannot talk enough about that sin. States are passing laws against trans.

I remember some years ago watching the conservative Catholic--can't remember just now what it is called--during a discussion of when the Catholic Church had been wrong. One of the famous cases was its belief that the sun travels around the world instead of the opposite. The was challenged by the famous Galileo. The Catholic TV personality said, "Just because the church has been wrong in the past does not mean it is wrong today." That is correct but in evaluating views we should look at the pattern and who benefits and who is made worse off by the changing views. 

The history book I'm reading, American Visions: The United States 1800 to 1860, reviews debates going on in newspapers and books about slavery during the decade of the 1840's. A strong and popular position held by slave owners as well as those who did not own them was that slavery was a wonderful thing for the Negro. It was wonderful because slaves were forced to accept Christianity. This meant they did not have to spend eternity in hell. What a good deal for them!

This was followed in my lifetime by the view God did not want the races to inter marry. Evidence of this was that different races are indigenous to different continents. There fervently held beliefs are now in the dust bin of history. But Christians have found a way to transfer their hatred of other races to people to the gender issue. When a person finds herself mentally of a different gender than was assigned he at birth somehow that is a MAJOR sin. Why not just shrug and repeat the saying my Grandmother repeated often, "It takes all kinds"?

The pattern keeps repeating itself in the faith, people who are different are bad. After they are found not to be bad, the faith moves on to find another group to demonize. The trans thingy will be gone soon, but something equally cruel will replace it.    

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