How Can/Should Religions Change? (Jesus Christ, rituals, tradition, choices)

[Fluffy]

What I find disconcerting is that the question "Does religion change?" even needs to be asked. That isn't a knock at your thread, Zork, since I know plenty of people who are willing to defend the viewpoint that it does not change. Religions have all changed as time has moved on, this is undisputable and there is no reason why they will not continue to do so.

[Bangbang]

I think that the three major Abrahamic Religions....Christianity...Islam...and Judaism need to learn to respect each other or man will become extinct far sooner than we will if they don't.

[ChrisP]

Originally Posted by Bangbang

I think that the three major Abrahamic Religions....Christianity...Islam...and Judaism need to learn to respect each other or man will become extinct far sooner than we will if they don't.

". . . or man will become extince far sooner than we will if they don't"

I think I know what you mean and I agree, unless a change to the above wording proves otherwise .

[robtex]

Originally Posted by gnosis_777

well i dont think people were necessarily killed for eating pork... however, some would argue that God of the OT just wanted people to be healthy, happy, and protect themselves so they could better serve God...

Actually there is speculation that the eating of pork was included in the series of events leading to the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Read the 5th paragraph of that link.
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibi...h/history.html

[Halcyon]

Originally Posted by ChrisP

". . . or man will become extince far sooner than we will if they don't"

I think I know what you mean and I agree, unless a change to the above wording proves otherwise .

I think he meant we are going to become extinct anyway. And pretty soon too, about 10 years when the gulf stream shuts down. Sorry if thats ruined peoples plans of having children

[Sunstone]

Religions change all the time. It's a myth that they remain constant. In college, I read an impressive essay on how the concept of Jesus Christ had undergone five major changes over the last 2000 years. I wish I still had that essay and had not lost it.

[robtex]

Originally Posted by Sunstone

Religions change all the time. It's a myth that they remain constant. In college, I read an impressive essay on how the concept of Jesus Christ had undergone five major changes over the last 2000 years. I wish I still had that essay and had not lost it.

That would be really interesting to read. Who was the author any key words that could be used in a google search?

[Bangbang]

Originally Posted by Halcyon

I think he meant we are going to become extinct anyway. And pretty soon too, about 10 years when the gulf stream shuts down. Sorry if thats ruined peoples plans of having children

Scary stuff!

The Science of Abrupt Climate Change

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by Dr. Jeffrey M. Masters
Chief Meteorologist, The Weather Underground, Inc.

Introduction

In the debate on climate change, we are used to hearing about climate changes on the scale of hundreds or even thousands of years. But since the early 1990s, a radical shift in the scientific understanding of Earth's climate history has occurred. We now know that that major regional and global climate shifts as recently as 8200 years ago have occurred in just a few decades or even a single year. If an abrupt climate change of similar magnitude happened today, it would have severe consequences for humans and natural ecosystems. Although scientists consider an abrupt climate change unlikely in the next 100 years, they concede that their understanding of the phenomena is so incomplete that such a change could be triggered at any time by natural processes or by human-caused global warming.


http://www.wunderground.com/education/abruptclimate.asp

[Druidus]

Druidry changes automatically, as each Druid brings new concepts, changes old ones, and etc.