07-08-2017, 03:30 PM
Once upon a time, the European kings needed more babies so they could have bigger armies, kill more folk, and amass more temporal power. At one point, there were two Popes who bid against each other for political recognition of their supposedly religious authority. Among other things, this was the time when abortion was made a big stigma. One of the Popes, in return for recognition, gave the King his bigger army. Unfortunately, this was just before the Protestant Reformation, thus the new churches kept many patterns from the old.
While modern churches aren't as messed up as the old medieval ones, the deeper I look into how decisions were made in the old days, the more dubious I get about the old traditions. If someone once spoke in the name of God, their heirs sorta have to go along with whatever was said way back when. Otherwise you end up diluting your own authority. This makes me skeptical.
Of course, much of my perspective is that Agricultural Age civilization was horribly flawed. We've had a century or to of crises moving to a different pattern of economics, military, political, moral and religious perspective. I'm dubious about returning to Agricultural Age thought.
While modern churches aren't as messed up as the old medieval ones, the deeper I look into how decisions were made in the old days, the more dubious I get about the old traditions. If someone once spoke in the name of God, their heirs sorta have to go along with whatever was said way back when. Otherwise you end up diluting your own authority. This makes me skeptical.
Of course, much of my perspective is that Agricultural Age civilization was horribly flawed. We've had a century or to of crises moving to a different pattern of economics, military, political, moral and religious perspective. I'm dubious about returning to Agricultural Age thought.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.