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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Not everyone's faith demands that they take the bible as the literal word of God though. Religion evolves just like any ideology evolves. For example, someone who believes in government isn't necessarily abandoning their ideals if they support democratic principles instead of absolute monarchy. It just means that the commonly accepted principles of the community evolved. Religion is no different in that respect.
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Religion is different, it is, in theory, the law of god, not debatable. As individuals or even as churches we can, and have, essentially decided not to believe in it as the word of god, but rather as a series of moral precepts that we change as we need, but at this point it isn't really a religion any more than, to use your example, Canada is a monarchy, we may have a queen still but she holds no power and is a mere figurehead much as god is for Christians.