Why is it so hard for some religions to say, "Maybe we made a mistake here"?

Question

Or, "Maybe we should update our religion."
Sometimes they need to do this. The world is not the same it was 5000, 2000, or 1000 years ago, and our views are not the same, so why shouldn't religions modernize themselves? There is new technology that wasn't around when religions began, and new knowledge not only of a spirtiual or religious nature. Christianity would still be Christianity with updates, Islam still Islam, etc, etc.

I am not addressing only these two religions, and I know that there are religions in the world that have updated themselves.

Answer 1

*rolling my Eyes*... not at the questioner.. She had a VERY good point. Rather at the folks who've dragged out the same old responses. They do it time and time again to justify their OWN sense of superiority. GROW UP people, your religions were wrong in their methodolgy in the passt and you refuse to change and adapt to those facts and insist that those methodologies have suddenly become valid today. You ALL wonder why the NEW AGE Religions are doubling in menbership every five years, growing at exponential rates? It's because the NEW AGE Religions have flexibility BUILT into them. They ALL have the idea of universal acceptance and tolerance for others' beliefs as an integral part of their makeup. they recognize that Deity and the individual has a unique relationship between them that is NOT based on some dogma written by some obscure person in the far distant past. A Dogma that has been changed, rewritten, censured many times over and over for a myriad of reasons by a countless number of people. The Bible, the Koran, the Torah of today is NOT the Bible, Koran and Torah of the early religions. What you have today is the result of religious censorship, political censorship and just palin old MIS-copying in the days before wide spread uniform publishing came about. Mistakes HAVE been made, errors HAVE been compounded, BOTH in the works themselves AND in the implementation (pratcices) of those works. Mistakes and errors that have cost MILLIONS their very lives over the thousands of years. Enough damage has been done in the name of religion, isn't it about time to stop and re-evaluate it all? Obviously the religious, political, and societal system is broken. What is needed is for a comlete re0evaluation and reassesment of where we are today. Develpoment of new concepts to put it all back correctly and figure out ways to addrress and correct the wrongs of the past. But just sitting there and quoting from the works that have become broken to justify this continued "business as usual" attitude just has to STOP.

Raji the Green Witch

Answer 2

I can only speak for Christianity because I am a Christian. The moral code in the Bible transcends time. There are things that we have to take historical evidence into account, but the things like love one another, God is love, do unto others as you would have them to do you, and other moral codes are something that we should not modernize because they do not change. No matter how old this religion gets--God is still God. God is still love. I don't know what you are wanting to update, but the church has changed dramatically over the years. You can go to a church in jeans and a tshirt and play a guitar and drums rather than a grand piano. There are people clapping as if they were at a concert in the middle of a worship service. Everytime there is something that comes up in the modern world, churches worldwide address it and come up with their belief on the subject (gay marriage for example). I think sometimes we focus too much on the people in the church instead of those outside of the church. It is like Christ said, he came to heal the ones that think they need the healing not the ones that think they are already whole. I think the church fails sometimes in being loving and open arms. I don't think that is something that is a modern idea or is in need of updating. I think that is simply the result of how we fail to follow Christ perfectly.

Answer 3

Isn't there still time to put the baby up for adoption? I would look into it- just the rights you have as the mother and stuff. Just get the information so you can really think it all over and decide on an appropriate solution. It sounds like there may not be enough stability there to raise a baby at your age. There is also open adoptions so you can be a part of the childs' life without actually having the baby 24/7. This may take the pressure off you and your family while still giving the baby a healthy home and still being able to visit it. I wish you luck on whatever you decide. I can't imagine making that kind of decision.

Answer 4

It's a snowball rolling down a hill. If they admit they're wrong about one thing..who knows? And then they'll lose their control over their peoples' mind (and their pocketbooks). Sceptics will be running the show. Mayhem. Better to just excuse skeptics as crazy.

It's too bad that outdated beliefs get passed down from generation to generation until the end of time. The pagans are also passing down their beliefs from the time before the Christians came and they are called 'backward'.

Answer 5

I think its a fear that if they say "Hey we might have been a little wrong on that whole "Ban Disney thing" " That it will cause people to start to question every other aspect of that religion and lead to a total meltdown of the faith. But yeah i think a lot of religions could use some updating. Life is not always black and white right or wrong there is a grey area in there to.

Answer 6

You're talking about the "natural" vs the "supernatural."

How can you "update" God by his own creation?

That makes no sense.

God does not change as we fickle and feeble people do.

Two faiths that I'm aware of who have tried to change with the tide of man kind are falling apart. Which means the proof is in the pudding. Your idea doesn't work.

Answer 7

Satan never changes - he always "updates" himself but at the end of the day, Satan is still Satan.

The tenets of Christianity are applicable to 2007 AD just as the tenets of Judaism were applicable to 2007 BC. Unfortunately, Satan blocked the ears of the glorious Resurrection and hardened the hearts of the Jews.

Answer 8

The problem is religion, whenever man gets involved and starts to set up some sort of structure for God things gt messed up. I don't really consider myself religious for that reason, I believe in God, and that Jesus is my savior, but too many churches contradict each other with there rules that they made up, I go to church don't get me wrong, but I concern myself with what the bible says and nothing else

Answer 9

God no!

Talking about the bible...Is not a normal legal thing, that can be modernized, it is right since the beginning and not modification are needed. If it does accept to do changes it will only mean that is not really something that comes from God, but from men.

Take care.

Answer 10

The Pope has recently questioned Limbo for unbaptized infants... which sort of puts Limbo into question since the Pope should know about such things, right?

Sort of makes you wonder what else Catholicism might be wrong about.