Updating, Evolving, Improving

DEVOUT CHRISTIANS seem to always insist on the virute of their refusal to even consider ever changing their beliefs, chiseled in stone. Their refusal to even consider the possibility of changing and improving their core beliefs they consider a virtue, an indication of moral superiority. Astonishing, to admire willful intellectual and spiritual stagnation. Willful intellectual and spiritual stagnation should be considered a sin, because it is. Intelligent, thinking beings should be ready, willing, and able (as they say) to change their religious beliefs in a heartbeat, if circumstances merit. Simply by saying: "I don't know", even if its the first time you've ever said it, is honesty, an indication of a willingness to be open minded and honest intellectually. My personal belief in God, for example, is my perception, and I am free to change it constantly, to update it, with new information obtained through living my life. The very moment a group of people in authortiy decide that a certain book, for example, is the sacred, unalterable "Word of God", and refuse to allow for the possibility of updating and improving it, the book begins to become outdated. Society evolves and changes, and its ideals about reality and morality do also. So it must be. It cannot be otherwise. Humanity has been increasing and continues to increase its knowledge extremely rapidly, and, at whatever speed, seems quite likely to continue the process of progress. Over the coming decades and centuries, the Christian bible in its current (2022) form will only continue to seem ever more outdated and primitive, simply because it is a book, and that's what books do. In point of fact, throughout its history, the past seventeen hundred years of its existence, the Christian bible has been constantly changing, as powerful people edited it, translated it repeatedly, changed it, added to it and detracted from it, not always for the better. Our Inherently conservative human mentality makes it irrrestiably tempting to regard, as a society, documents like the U.S. Constitution and the Holy Christian bible sacred, inviolable, and irreplaceable, but quite the opposite is true. Both are badly in need of improvement, and, actually, of replacement altogether. Therefore, let's keep changing the Bible, for the better! Goethe said:"It is beyond me how anyone can believe that God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal itself to us, and if our hearts do not tell us what we owe ourselves and others, then we will certainly not find it in books, which, at best, are designed only to give names to our mistakes." Well said, Mr. Goethe. Arguably, the idea that God speaks to us, reveals his word to us, in books, is ridiculous. She could not choose a worse way. The best way? Give humanity a brain, and a universe, and see what happens. We the people need a new U.S. constitution and a new Bible, more compatible with modern thought. The traditional bible was written by people and people decided that it is the "Word of God" by voting on it. Let's elect a better version! We could do a much better job, and could us the word "God" as often as we want.... "In the beginning, God created the big bang, and hence, the universe." Human progress is going to continue, unless we destroy ourselves, which, of course, is always a possibility. The question is: will human religiosity keep up? Or will it seem ever more primmitive, ever less relevant? The is a reason why, for example, the Christian faith is losing popularity in Europe and North America. Each generation is born into a world increasingly scientific in outlook. If we reverse climate change and save the ecosystem we will do it with science, not religion, but doing it at all can arguably be regarded as a religious obligation.