Throughout history have religions had to learn to live with things they don't like?

[RKO]

Such as war, slavery, the death penalty, domestic violence,etc?

I read of openly gay lifestyles and relationships in the european rennaissance, for example. It seems to have just existed without the church really coming out (no pun intended!) against it, or at least in a way that was “loud enough” to have been been preserved through history.

How did priests in the south have slaves working in the rectory? Why was this not loudly renounced as immoral?

what about other christian denominations? What about Orthodoxy?

 

[KendraDZ1902]

 

[tabycat]

 

[ConstantineTG]

In the past religions were always nationalistic. So the king’s religion is the religion of all the people. That is why in the Bible you will often see God mentioned as the God of Israel rather than the God of all Creation. Because in the context of its time, only Israel followed the one, true God and everyone else each had their own set of idols that they followed.

 

[FabiusMaximus]

Such as war, slavery, the death penalty, domestic violence,etc?

I read of openly gay lifestyles and relationships in the european rennaissance, for example. It seems to have just existed without the church really coming out (no pun intended!) against it, or at least in a way that was “loud enough” to have been been preserved through history.

How did priests in the south have slaves working in the rectory? Why was this not loudly renounced as immoral?

what about other christian denominations? What about Orthodoxy?

Perhaps instead it was the fact that the Church was indeed outspoken against homosexuality and other matters we consider immoral today, but that people generally didn’t record it because it wasn’t really a news flash. Crime is considered sinful too but I don’t think the Church needed to put it on a bulletin board in the 1500s.

Circumstances change as well, which means that the Church might need to make a stand on other issues when some are taken for granted.

For example: if homosexuality was already known to be condemned by the Church in the 1500s, why speak out against it when most people already knew the Church was against it and felt the same way? Meanwhile, this was also the period in which the Protestant Reformation was questioning some fundamental Catholic teaching, such as the real presence in Holy Communion, Apostolic Succession, and other beliefs.

In the early phase of the Church, the focus was on the deity and nature of Christ, because many struggled to reconcile the Hypostatic Union and the Trinity. I imagine slavery and homosexuality were more on the backburner because the other issues were central to the Church.