Religious institutions are often at their clearest when exposing invention, revision, and self-interest in rival faiths. The privilege they claim is simpler and uglier: the right to inspect rival revelation as history while presenting their own history as revelation.
Tag: christianity
When God Changes His Mind: The LDS, the FLDS, and the Mechanism Made Visible
The LDS and the FLDS expose a mechanism religion would rather keep hidden: doctrine declared eternal until political pressure makes revision necessary, at which point capitulation is renamed revelation.
When Christianity Borrows Its Morality
Christianity likes to present its moral retreats as wisdom, growth, and deeper understanding. They are better read as concessions. Again and again, Christian institutions have abandoned old certainties only after secular moral reasoning made those certainties shameful. That is not proof of divine depth. IThat is not proof of divine depth. It is evidence that Christian institutions have repeatedly had to import moral correction from the wider world and then disguise the importation as insight.
The Permanent Rebuttal 