(February 28, 2016 at 4:08 pm)Rhythm Wrote:(February 28, 2016 at 4:02 pm)abaris Wrote: Not todays catholic church. They steer an ambivalent course on that matter. Same goes for evolution.
Negatron...I just linked the catechism, the declaration of vatican 1, and a pope on the subject. Todays -catholics- are ambivalent in these regards -in spite- of their doctrines, which are not. A person cannot believe in the current theory of evolution or the reliability of genetic evidence and remain faithful to catholic doctrine. The church is holding out hope that we will find a "correct" theory that allows for adam, eve. They believe it really happened and so it's understandable why they would do that. That's what they're referring to when they say catholics can believe in evolution. It's the same bait and switch the fundies pull day in and day out. A novel use of a misleading term or phrase.
Catholics, however, don't give a fuck anymore. Some of them, apparently, don't even know they're supposed to give a fuck.
In the same vein, todays catholics are not as concerned with the moral demands of their church, regardless of whether they come from a man in a funny hat or god. They were already rudderless, now they're a rudderless mob.
I agree 100%, the story of Adam and Eve has to be a literal interpretation, otherwise the story of Jesus doesn't make any sense.
