No, my argument is that neither you nor I are in a position to decide how "good" and "bad" should be defined. Your claim that the changes I listed are compatible with Judeo-Christian values is especially interesting.

Many church leaders were vociferously against desegregation, abolition, women's rights and gay marriage (I'm sure I don't need to provide you with a link for this), and used precisely the opposite argument to support their feelings. They absolutely didm't see black people and women as "children of God", certainly not to the same extent that white men were.

Again, you seem to be misunderstanding the distinction between sex and gender. Sex isn't "my term", it's the scientific term for the categories of male and female. It applies to almost all life forms, even most plants, not just humans. It simply describes whether your body is set up to produce sperm or eggs. You're right, there is some effort to pretend these categories don't exist and that's exactly why I wrote the article. Sex is absolutely real and meaningful. But gender (the ways males and females are expected to behave) is mostly a matter of social trends that there's no particular reason to adhere to.

As a simple example, Scottish men often wear kilts (which look broadly identical to skirts) and it's considered "manly". But if you wore a skirt down the street, people would point and laugh. There's no good justification for this difference. Not religious, not biological, not legal. Our views on these things are shaped by absorbing the prevailing views of society, not religious conviction.

But forget about sexuality for a minute, think about how technology has changed the world in the past 100 years. Space flight, nuclear weapons, cloning, AI. The Amish decided long ago that this was an affront to God's will and hit the pause button. But technological progress didn't stop. Even they've had to embrace some aspects to function. Who is right about God's will? Them or us? Who should decide when that change should stop?

So while I agree that the direction we're heading in is unknown, I'd argue that that's always the case. That's scarier for some than others, but it's not in any of our power to prevent. All we can do is try to steward the changes as wisely as possible.

Always a pleasure chatting with you Michael.