Updating Culture & the "Word of God": Part II

THE NOTION THAT the ancient God disapproved of homosexuality but that the modern God does not will of course run afoul of many religious people, and yet, is quite true. Whether God exists, humans invent the concept of God, and proceed to define it. Our definitions are different today than in the remote past. The Bible itself is but a book, and proves nothing. Five thousnad yeas ago God most likely did not say that anyone caught working on the sabbath must be put to death. Humans, listen poorly, and get things wrong. They convinced themselves that God had said many things, then turned it into sacred law. A false idea, repeated often enough and amplified becomes the word of God. The very idea of the christian religion, and the totality of its laws and beliefs, governing America in a theocratic Christian predicated system of laws, let along influencing, controlling, or infecting American culture, is abhorrant to any sane, thinking person. Everyone should vigorously oppose any attempt to implement such a system. Long live our secular democracy! Whetehr transgender people have a "choice" in being transgender is entirely irrelevant. Either way, we must simply accept them as people, our equals. If a transgender person and her doctor both want to provide medical are which fully acknnowledges the transgender person, and the medical care is administered accordingly, for God's sake, let them! When the evangelical politically conservative community starts to legislate primitive, harmful medical practices into law, such as laws denying transgender people, its time to resist and repeal. this madness must be stopped, for it is a form of abuse. conservatives have a demonstrated to deny the existence of whatever they dislike; examples of this tendency are their widespread denial of climate change, environmental collapse and mass extinction, the severity of Covid 19, and scientific expertise generally. These are many of the same folks who perpetuate the big election lie of Trump, and who still support his failed attempt to overthrow the American government. Their criminal insanity is evident. Their ruthless attack, legislatively, on gay rights, transgender rights, and voting rights must be stopped. Indeed, we must preserve the wisdom of the past, but must not allow ourselvs to be ruled by teh ignorance, nonsense, and false doctrine which comes with it. We mus tstudy and learn the msitakes of history, including racism and genocide, to avoid repeating them. Future human religiiosity can and must be based on our modern understanding of the universe, not that of ancinet civilizations. God speaks to us now, as we change, and improve our understanding of reality.