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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
I doubt that.
I think back to all the plays of Shakespeare, and the reason they still work today is because the themes of discrimination, hatred, prejudice and intolerance carry forwards from one generation to the next. Humans have made far more progress technically than progress in terms of advancing as a species.
Just last week I was watching the very first few episodes of "All in the Family" and the 4th episode of the series had Archie facing his homophobia. And my thought was.... this show was on when I was a little kid and we are STILL having to stand up and fight for what should be obvious.
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20 years ago I imagine support for gay marriage was less than 50%. Support for inter-racial marriage must be close to 100% now. I don't think our children will care about this, and religious literalism is on the decline.