Temat: The U.K. - two gay priests marry each other:
Steven H.:
Kamila Gołacka:
Steven H.:
Why is it allowed now and wasn't in the past? Why should religion change because society changes?
Because it is religion? :-) A way of perceiving certain things by the society, not those things themselves?
Ah. And I thought it was connected with God's will...
Religion, you mean, is connected with God's will? No matter which belief and values it holds? Hm, well -as some say - no thing can exist against God's will, so maybe everything is connected with God's will, even the cruelty.
Or maybe you mean religion as the way of approaching spiritual realm and God - that's of course easier to imagine as the God's will (which doesn't mean that's more possible).
Whatever you mean, religion still reflects the society's approach to life and death. Religion would not exist without society, would it. The phenomena religion speaks of perhaps would (just nobody would describe them and discuss them):-).
Anyway, I would differentiate between religion and the things it speaks of (the latter may stay the same for ages, the former may and inevitably will change), as well as between religion and spirituality.