1) human flight
A scientific achievment, not a cultural shift.
2) antibiotics
A scientific achievment, not a cultural shift.
3) interracial marriage
A cultural shift. And not necessarily a good one.
4) freedom from slavery
A cultural shift that brought us INTO alignment with God's wishes, not one that propelled us farther away.
5) the fight against racism
A cultural shift that has been marred by repeated abuses on the "victim" side.
6) capitalism (by your 4000 year scale)
You're daft. Capitalism -- in one form or another -- has existed since the dawn of time. True, it required an Industrial Revolution to give it its present incarnation, but people have been buying and selling at a profit for eons.
7) spongebob
A cultural mistake.
By the way, the Bible never condemned human flight, antibiotics, capitalism, or Sponge Bob (sadly). On the other hand, it does criticize bigotry and the abuses of slavery (although it is oddly ambivalent on the actual institution).
Your moral equivalency argument doesn't wash.
"6) capitalism (by your 4000 year scale)
You're daft. Capitalism -- in one form or another -- has existed since the dawn of time. True, it required an Industrial Revolution to give it its present incarnation, but people have been buying and selling at a profit for eons."
What we call "capitalism" is nothing more than the way people naturally act when nobody has a gun to their heads.
Hey, I've got wheat, and I need milk. Joe has milk, and needs wheat. Maybe we can work something out.
Von Hayek offers some very lucid discussions of this in "Road to Serfdom" and "Fatal Conceit."