The real religion?

[bennyboy]

I also think that you have some misconceptions regarding Christianity, shown here.  FYI,  I do believe in a six day creation, and find it useful.  I also acknowledge, that the word used for day, has a number of meanings other than 23 hrs and 56 minutes, that some contend.  I did notice, that when you went for evolution to the creation account, that you also changed from useful, to useful and water tight.   Why is that?

No, it's just an elaboration, not an important refinement. If you want to see the 6 days as six "ages," then I'd say you are viewing the Bible as metaphorical. In this case, I see much more value in the Bible that I would if it was meant to be taken literally.

For example, I've often seen the story of Adam and Eve as a story about puberty. Girls mature first and develop sexual interest, thereby losing their childish innocence in some sense. Then as the girls grow more beautiful (i.e. sexually mature), boys notice them and soon follow suit, also losing their innocence as they develop sexual interest. To say that God made men out of clay is also figuratively true, since the materials of our bodies are of the Earth, animated by the Sun's energy.

However, if the idea is that humans are separate from the rest of the natural world, because God made man with the breath of God (aka a soul), and that people are therefore the rightful owners of Earth and need not consider the feelings and experiences of animals at all, or take seriously the maintenance of the world, then I have to step off.

This is the problem with literalism-- it leads to behaviors and views that I consider harmful and downright ignorant. But whatever you say about the "real" Christianity, i.e. its misconceptions, I know that millions of Christians themselves also hold to those misconceptions, meaning the Christian institution is rife with ignorance.