Re: OT: Racial superiority / Intelligent design was Re: OT:Thanksgiving

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:15:02 -0800 (PST),
"roger.pearse@googlemail.com" <roger.pearse@googlemail.com> wrote:
 
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>We see some, certainly, although I'm not sure what you have in mind.

Over and over again people have been willing to use God's name to
demand that others accept their values.   They use the Bible to
justify attitudes and evils done.   When values change, the new
generation understands that the previous generation had important
things wrong.    It's not always so obvious as when the LDS profit
tells their church that blacks can now be saved - but it happens.
...


>All the same, this sounds like saying that people change their minds,
>therefore we can't know what the text says.  With respect, this isn't
>so (whichever text we have in mind!).

I'm in favor of "flip flopping" as we learn more and mature.
Politicians who are unwilling to be convinced are politicians who
won't change from wrong paths.

But back to your statement:

The important thing to remember is that people in the past have
studied the scriptures with much vigor and came up with support for
many different values they were willing to war for.    We have every
reason to believe that this process did not end with our generation.

Maybe being so Righteous about this generation's values isn't
important enough to war over.   Maybe Jesus' example of preferring to
be good (healing on the Sabbath), is a better model.