Friday, April 17, 2009

When a puppy reaches maturity it becomes a dog; when ice melts it is called water; when
twelve months have been used up, we get a new calendar with the proper chronological name;
when "magic" becomes scientific fact we refer to it as medicine, astronomy, etc. When one
name is no longer appropriate for a given thing it is only logical to change it to a new one
which better fits the subject. Why, then, do we not follow suit in the area of religion? Why
continue to call a religion the same name when the tenets of that religion no longer fit the
original one? Or, if religion does preach the same things that it always has, but its followers
practice nearly none of its teachings, why do they continue to call themselves by the name
given to followers of that religion?

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