Why does science always upstage God?

[Pat Mustard]

No, no, they tried as hard as they could to eradicate that heresy.  It was highly damaging to their authority and, thus....their bottom line.  Catholicism is a simple but effective variation of a highly syncretic temple taxation scheme.  They needed a real peter, they needed a flesh and blood christ.  It's wholly through their insistence (and enforcement) that the story was in some sense literal that you would have come to believe it as whatever form of protestantism you suffered under.

The catholic faith, by the by, is dogmatically bound to literal creationism where it matters - in case you were taught otherwise by "catholics", lol.

That's surprising... to hear it told, it's as if the whole of that pesky OT was made allegory

With the catholic church they don't stop insisting you believe the obviously stupid shit. They just stop telling you about it.

When you look at the canon creationism is still there it's just that no penguin, priesr etc. will ever bring it up.