Director Roger Nygard traveled the world asking theologians, scientists, skeptics, and everyday people 85 tough questions to try to understand The Nature of Existence! Now that he’s asked the experts, it’s YOUR TURN! To offer your own insights on today’s question, “Can a religion change with society?”, Leave a Reply below!
Of course! Just the same as a society can change with religion.
Both positive and negetive way. You can leave all the “why” that you should be asking to Religion to answer and focus on being a billionaire. Or you can reject the world and become a celibating monk and hope that there will always be some materialistic people out there who will be happy to perform all the religious rituals thinking that they are good enough to grant them the paradise. If everybody become a monk, who would grow food? Who would give the monks their alms or bhikkha?
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Has it ever done anything ELSE?
Religions already had their time and already have proved their incompetence to bring a better society.
Of course. Look at Christianity, its denominations are ever-evolving to change with the times. Give it another 100 years and I doubt it’ll be gone, but by then they’ll probably accept homosexuals.
Yes. But because religion is often based on unquestionable doctrine, it is usually far too late.
The Catholic Church’s 1992 acceptance of Galileo’s claim that the Earth goes around the sun is one example.
They clearly do. We no longer burn witches at the stake, or torture those who dare to express their honest thoughts. We no longer justify slavery with a holy book or denounce those who express the equal rights of minorities as heretics. We no longer boycott businesses for staying open on the sabbath.
There is an inner core to religion that does not change and is universal. There is also an outer cultural shell that changes as society changes. This is the part that deals with local cultural values.
Yes and frankly that has been the key to the popularity of Christianity. It always adapts and tailors it’s subjective magic voodoo to say what a particular culture wants to hear.
Christianity was imbued with aspects of Aristotle’s reason via Aquainas for example and managed to evolve to live until today.
Yes. Like a virus, religion can mutate to adapt to changes in a society. But we’d be better off curing the virus.
it always is, and eventually maybe it’ll change it’s way right out of this universe.