Good grief, humanity isn't perfect, what makes you think you're above the fallen human beings who preceded you?
Because we like to think that we have entered a more enlightened age. Because we like to think that we can learn from humanity's past mistakes. Because we live in an age when a lot of what we do is subject to scrutiny and global comment. Because current mores are more tolerant. And because we like to believe that humanity can improve, be more moral and rise above the brutality of its past.
Not universally - not without exception - but surely that should be the goal - to improve mankind.
I notice from the statement of faith that you linked earlier that the world view that you wholeheartedly agree with, likes to see humanity as inherently and irrevocably sinful, but that that is ok, because you can be sinful and then forgiven through worship.
Personally, I prefer to have a go at trying not to be too sinful in the first place. I prefer to have a go at being above the brutish, exploitative, fallen human beings of my (and others') countries' pasts.
Whose is the better path, Faith ? Someone who tries to rise above man's past sins and lead as moral a life as they can now ? Or someone who thinks that sin is normal but capable of being wiped clean by wearing the right religious badge ?
Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?
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