In a previous post, I alluded to the fact that China has gotten rid of God (The Forbidden City: we don’t do that anymore) within the government and has bestowed more-or-less the power upon its people in the form of communism. However, God very much still exists in the West and is engrained in many aspects of everyday society (You don’t want to kill God). I wanted to expand on this difference between East and West a bit more.
Within the western sphere, God and religion are historic concepts and the Bible dates back thousands of years. The stories and ideologies were written and contrived at a time without many of the commodities and technologies that we have today. Thus, to believe in the concept of God wholeheartedly is to, in a way, shun many of the modern developments that is occurring within our society. To follow the Bible and its teachings in the strictest sense is to live in the past.
Yet, God and its foundational teachings in the form of morality and some its fundamental laws regarding marriage, for instance, is timeless because the institution of marriage is not going anywhere in the near future. Thus, just like any other form of scholarship, religious texts need to be updated with the times.
Perhaps the acceptance of God for future generations has to do with strictness of interpretation and not the teachings of the Bible itself. It could be that prior generations were starting to take the scripture and its words too literally to the point where it became no longer practical for a modern child, say, to accept God. Thus, religion and its continued acceptance within contemporary society is really an issue of how stringent the collective parental community is (The super strict parent).
The Ivory Tower 
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