Other titles: why I
mind my own business
Or why I choose not to be offended about other people’s
lives and choices
(Disclaimer – this is written largely to a Christian audience
as that’s my background)
- Judge not, lest you be judged (Mt 7, 1-3)
- Greatest commandment: Love one another, as I have loved you so that others will know you are my disciples (John 13: 34-35).
- The church has been accepting/rejecting/adjusting its attitude to and understanding of the bible for centuries. Does it mean God has changed? No – it means society has changed, thank goodness. Other biblical dictates punishable by death include planting two different crops side by side, laying with your wife within 7 days of menstruation, leaving pots outside at night right way up and unruly teenage boy behaviour.
- Marriage is older than the bible and Judeo-Christian culture. Every culture and society has had its version of relationship commitment and coming together for the purpose of raising families. It’s a little arrogant of any of us to say that we own something - and the church does not own marriage.
- The church needs to check that its attitude is not creating a barrier between certain groups and the Message of the church. JC surrounded himself with those whom the church rejected. I suggest you do the same.
- The Christian church has dragged the chain on many social changes that we now see as human rights and enlightened... such as women’s being their own person (not the property of a man) – gender equality, the right to freedom from violence for women and children, abolition of slavery and racial equality
This is just the next thing that
the church will struggle with and finally move on.
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