Homosexuality and the "arrow of history"
Homosexuality and the "arrow of history"
By John P. Richardson
http://ugleyvicar.blogspot.com/2011/04/accepting-homosexuality-retrograde.html
April 25, 2011
Benny Hazlehurst's argument that the Christian acceptance of gay marriage would be like the overthrow of slavery or the realization that the earth goes round the sun (Letters, April 8) might be more persuasive if the 'arrow of history' were going the same way in each case.
Christianity was, of course, born into a world where slavery was normal (and very unlike the 'plantation slavery' of 18th and 19th century religious disputes). And the arguments for the earth going round the sun were once thought to be scientifically very weak, not least from the evidence of our senses.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By John P. Richardson
http://ugleyvicar.blogspot.com/2011/04/accepting-homosexuality-retrograde.html
April 25, 2011
Benny Hazlehurst's argument that the Christian acceptance of gay marriage would be like the overthrow of slavery or the realization that the earth goes round the sun (Letters, April 8) might be more persuasive if the 'arrow of history' were going the same way in each case.
Christianity was, of course, born into a world where slavery was normal (and very unlike the 'plantation slavery' of 18th and 19th century religious disputes). And the arguments for the earth going round the sun were once thought to be scientifically very weak, not least from the evidence of our senses.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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