(January 4, 2018 at 12:38 pm)Khemikal Wrote:(January 4, 2018 at 12:36 pm)emjay Wrote: The problem with allegory is it's not a very good basis for belief, especially if it's status as allegory or not changes or can change with the wind. I'd never even heard the word allegory until I came on here... I grew up as a creationist/literalist... it seems to be a Catholic invention
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