by Ibon » Thu 28 Sep 2006, 16:17:57
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Niagara', 'I') don't want to continue debating on doctrines. It's a waste of time. Besides this is a Peak Oil website, not a religion forum.
We're in the Psychology Forum here so there is more latitude in a deeper exchange and sharing of thoughts around belief. This can surely include some scriptural analysis as long as it isn't limited to this.
On a serious note our culture will not transform toward a more sustainable paradigm if the super structures in our culture don't evolve. I would include our religious, economic and political systems as the three biggest super structures that require evolution if we will ever acheive a sustainable culture and deal with some very profound ethical questions on how we manage 6.5 billion humans going into resource decline.
We will not solve this problem with technology alone. So I find these discussions actually at least as important as technical analysis.
Western culture is mainly christian and many believers and even non believers still have a moral and ethical value system based on the legacy of christian doctrine. This doctrine is not absolute and is not perfect and if it doesn't evolve to the realities of today that have some profound differences to human culture 2000 years ago than we are surely doomed.
We don't have to throw the baby out with the bath water but if you don't change the water occasionally in the fish tank then the fish start dying and stinking and frankly christianity today is missing some key doctrine and is unable to deal with providing spiritual solutions to our over population and resource depletion.
Anything that doesn't evolve goes extinct. Including any religion, none of which are infallible.