Don't worry about global population collapse

Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by datavirtue on Saturday September 30, 2023 @09:53PM (#37721802)

I think these religions and belief systems are adapting to a more sensible take, but I think the dogma demanding children will be scuttled. The humanist/Jesus/profit teachings will become rectified against human experience and philosophies of consciousness and drift toward core messages of peace and community while the dogma and rhetoric of pulpit interpretations of sin and judgement should subside.

I think the identity will remain but the substance will change.

There are some really cool discussions on YouTube about the definition of God and the nature of consciousness that are quite compelling and unifying.

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Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by NateEag on Sunday October 01, 2023 @12:03AM (#37722418)

Anyone who actually reads the New Testament closely will see that modern American evangelicalism is not especially closely related to what those texts actually say. (Obvious example: the texts don't claim "inerrancy" anywhere.)

It follows that Christianity evolved into its current form from the NT as its starting point.

Further evolutions and shifts should be expected (though some of them may look like explorations of very ancient paths not taken, like a drift away from inerrantist literalism and back towards things like Origen's opinion that the NT writers may well have made factual errors).

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