Admitting You're a Sinner

[The Grand Nudger]

It seems what some people here fail to grasp (or perhaps they do understand and are being purposely obtuse, that would be my guess), is that it is perfectly acceptable in Catholicism to take either a literal or allegorical approach to Genesis and Original Sin. So long as you accept the underlying message.

The account of the fall in Genesis 3 uses figurative language, but affirms a primeval event, a deed that took place at the beginning of the history of man.264 Revelation gives us the certainty of faith that the whole of human history is marked by the original fault freely committed by our first parents.265

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/ar...s2c1p7.htm

OMGeees..what we're seeing here is a catholic who rejects catholic doctrine "because evolution" - and I have to be honest...I didn't think that was actually a thing. That's another one of those areas that the catholic apparatus has essentially abandoned the field ...letting the rabble believe whatever they want..but, officially, demanding what the rabble do not believe.

The RCC is currently engaged in a process of upheaval, attempting to balance their faith against the practical reality of their continued existence; as the power of their demographics begins to effect change from the bottom in what has been..heretofore, a Top Down sort of organisation. For many clergy and educators...they know that their parishioners and students don't believe "The Approved Line", but objecting and insisting causes attendance loss.

Catholics aren't -quite- as scared that..if they don;t go to mass and get communion, they'll go to hell (for example)- so they can practically negotiate on their beliefs at a personal level in the face of authority. The church can't credibly threaten to withhold those services for non-coformity as it once could. OFC the church still insists that these rituals -are- necessary.