First, the assumption that science and spirituality are mutually exclusive, and that one HAS to contradict the other is simply ingrained in our consciousness- conditioned carefully to preserve conflict and create meaning in the debates that surround it while engendering no actual progress or compromise.
I said they were mixing science and religion. Obviously I don't think they are mutually exclusive, but that is the way I like them. Progress is good, sure. The problems happen when to even have questions is considered blasphemy or inappropriate rather than truth-seeking curiosity. That's what mixing religion and science has
already done.
Humility means accepting that as singular organisms acting as part of a much larger whole, we are probably blissfully unaware of the consciousness that maintains that whole. Attempting to use a "proper" name, hymn, or set of behavioral rules and attributing it to the wisdom of a being so far above us in perception, cognition, omnipresence, etc. is laughable, if examined logically.
Only if you assume the greater being incapable (or not desiring) of communication with us using methods we can understand. I don't see the logic in assuming that, or humor in believing the opposite. Feel free to explain it.
Second, let's look at "modern theology". Unless we're speaking here of something like the Unitarian Universalists, there really isn't any 'modern theology' except in the context of analysis.
First, let's look it like its not science. I meant the phase along the lines of "the theology of people today". That is what I think the Cosmos series is trying to replace. Second, I think you are mistaken. Theology is constantly changing in the pews of churches across the world--from the Great Awakening to the Evangelical movement to the Charismatic movement to Hebrew roots and non-denominational churches.
As the Bible made its way through the game of telephone, losing the apocrypha and certain other elements, the words of Christ were preserved and translated with utmost care, probably to the best degree in the entire book.
If I could show you there hasn't been as much telephone as you seem to believe, how would that impact you? And you left off Christ's #1 commandment, ‘And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.' And I agree that love for the orphan, widow, and poor is very important to the God of the OT and NT. The words on judging would be more correctly summarized as "don't be a hypocrite and don't look at people through the outward eyes of man's tradition".
- Paul