"my "wisdom" makes me find it strange/puzzling that technological progress is (too) often found to be a good thing but ideological ideas should be immune to change"
Welcome to the world. Technological advance has always outpaced mankinds ability to adujst ideology and morality. That's because the two are separate things. technology is based on what men can think up, and what we can actually make work. Ideologies are made up by principles we feel to be true. "Thou shalt not kill" is a truth. The telegram or the steam engine isn't a truth, it's just a tool. Why does it seem odd to you that people are less apt to change what they view as the truth than they are to invent new tools?
By the way, Christianity and religion in general aren't immune to change. they simply change on a much slower timeline.
Slowguy
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Welcome to the world. Technological advance has always outpaced mankinds ability to adujst ideology and morality. That's because the two are separate things. technology is based on what men can think up, and what we can actually make work. Ideologies are made up by principles we feel to be true. "Thou shalt not kill" is a truth. The telegram or the steam engine isn't a truth, it's just a tool. Why does it seem odd to you that people are less apt to change what they view as the truth than they are to invent new tools?
By the way, Christianity and religion in general aren't immune to change. they simply change on a much slower timeline.
Slowguy
(insert pithy phrase here...)