If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
Jewish Proverb
For starters, Michael Eric Dyson's commentary on the Tavis Smiley show June 3, 2004 is about the Roman Catholic church denying gay parishoners the sacrament. Dyson says that the morality of the church needs to be changed and the church is on the wrong side of a lot of issues morally (mind you he never states why). Vatican decrees state that secular laws that contradict fundamental religious laws of morality, including abortion and same sex unions, are immoral.
My questions are: What gives Dyson and others who hold similar beliefs on morality the permission to decide which moral laws are right or wrong? How can they be so sure that their personal moral beliefs are right and a church's are wrong, particularly those people who's own religion stems from the same history of beliefs (as recorded in the Bible)? Do fundamental morals change as time passes?
Then why believe in religion in the first place, if traditional morals are so unacceptable? Instead of bending an established religion to fit a portion of society's ever changing system of morality, why not just create individual, personalized religions, because aren't you placing yourself above God anyway when you change fundamental morals that He commanded in the first place? Do people believe that God tells them that the old system is wrong and the new is right?
Jewish Proverb
For starters, Michael Eric Dyson's commentary on the Tavis Smiley show June 3, 2004 is about the Roman Catholic church denying gay parishoners the sacrament. Dyson says that the morality of the church needs to be changed and the church is on the wrong side of a lot of issues morally (mind you he never states why). Vatican decrees state that secular laws that contradict fundamental religious laws of morality, including abortion and same sex unions, are immoral.
My questions are: What gives Dyson and others who hold similar beliefs on morality the permission to decide which moral laws are right or wrong? How can they be so sure that their personal moral beliefs are right and a church's are wrong, particularly those people who's own religion stems from the same history of beliefs (as recorded in the Bible)? Do fundamental morals change as time passes?
Then why believe in religion in the first place, if traditional morals are so unacceptable? Instead of bending an established religion to fit a portion of society's ever changing system of morality, why not just create individual, personalized religions, because aren't you placing yourself above God anyway when you change fundamental morals that He commanded in the first place? Do people believe that God tells them that the old system is wrong and the new is right?
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