The Importance Of Common Sense Of Religion

The lack of common sense is not just in government. There is a lot of it in religion too. When we take every verse of the Bible literally without thinking about the assumptions and context behind that verse, we are not using common sense; we are being childish Christians. When we follow a religious tradition for the sake of the tradition without thinking about how it applies to our current life situation, we are not using our God-given common sense; we are being blind followers. Then we wonder why religion does not really transform our lives and that of society.
Here are some examples. Take the case of the rule of celibacy for Catholic priests. There is no biblical foundation for it. Until the 11th century, priests were married. The first 39 popes were married. Mandatory celibacy for Catholic priests has a history of only about a1000 years. As the Church holds on tightly to this rule, about 4000 parishes are closed down in the United States with no Sunday Mass. People are spiritually starving, but the Pope won't change the rule. The irony is that the Catholic Church welcomes married Anglican priests (with their wives and children) and accepts them as Catholic priests, but the Church won't welcome someone like me back to the priesthood, because I have a wife and children! Go figure the common sense of that.
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For example, if we need heart surgery, we don't call a medicine man like they did it in biblical times; we go to the best hospital in town. If we need to go to New York we don't travel on a donkey because that is how people traveled in biblical times. Imagine traveling on a donkey on Interstate 95. When we need to write something down, we don't look for papyrus parchment because that is what people in biblical times used for writing. We use computers, smart phones and iPads these days. So what is it about religion that keeps us frozen in time, but in everything else we have come of