I found your reply very informative. Thank you for your candor.
I was not sure what direction this might take. One possibility, and one that I had some hope might come up, is the idea that Christian teaching, at least at the Church and Sunday School level, might finally begin to honestly explore Christian history just as Hebrew University is exploring Jewish History.
I don't think Christian orthodoxy could more accurately portray all men, than portraying them as depraved, desperately wicked, and in absolute need of a savior.
Many terrible acts have happened in the past in the name of Christianity and they continue today. In many ways, Christianity is one of the more bankrupt religions on today's scene. If there is to be hope of changing Christianity we must first acknowledge what we, as Christians, have done wrong in the past, examine honestly what we are doing now and try at the least, not repeat the errors of the past.
I don't think it's a matter of avoidance in reapeating the errors of the past. We are inherently programed to repeat them. It's our nature!
You appear to me, to be condemning what is perfectly natural. How can we look to anything other than something above ourselves (or the transcendant) with which to stop what you find so offensive?