Catholics less nutty than Protestants: more evidence

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<font color="red">Vatican wants to end battle with science</font>
Cardinal says unreasonable religion can fall prey to fundamentalism

VATICAN CITY - A Vatican cardinal said Thursday that the faithful should listen to what secular modern science has to offer, warning that religion risks turning into “fundamentalism” if it ignores scientific reason.

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Enrollment's down.

Better kiss some more ass.

Damned child-molesting priests.

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Enrollment's down.


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wrong

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The atomic bomb and the possibility of cloning human beings are fruit of a reason that wants to free itself from every ethical or religious link

[/ QUOTE ]The a bomb and human cloning. Ok I get the abomb thing but cloning?? come'on.

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The atomic bomb and the possibility of cloning human beings are fruit of a reason that wants to free itself from every ethical or religious link

[/ QUOTE ]The a bomb and human cloning. Ok I get the abomb thing but cloning?? come'on.

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Nuclear weapons have probably saved more human lives than any invention in history. J. Robert Oppenheimer should have gotten the Nobel Peace Prize.

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<font color="red">Vatican wants to end battle with science</font>


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is that an unconditional surrender?

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Update:

<font color="red">Catholic Church no longer swears by truth of the Bible</font>

THE hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church has published a teaching document instructing the faithful that some parts of the Bible are not actually true.

The Catholic bishops of England, Wales and Scotland are warning their five million worshippers, as well as any others drawn to the study of scripture, that they should not expect “total accuracy” from the Bible.

“We should not expect to find in Scripture full scientific accuracy or complete historical precision,” they say in The Gift of Scripture.

The document is timely, coming as it does amid the rise of the religious Right, in particular in the US.

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Wow. I'd like to hear some of the Catholics on here give thoughts on this. It's... amazing to me.

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What the bishops meant, and which is clear if you read their document (which does not even teach for the entire church by the way), is that the bible is not primarily a book whose purpose is to teach history or science. Thus God sometimes chose to teach by way of allegory or through a "story" which has a religious point. Great care must be taken to differentiate that which is in fact historically accurate though, and the church is the authentic interpreter of same. Many fundamentalists, while lacking an authentic teaching authority by virtue of the basis of protestantism, i.e. competence of individual interpretation, maintain it to be literally true in all respects despite the contradictions this causes and also despite the fact that they really are in fact selective about their literalness (ask the Baptists where their bishops are).

Yep, exactly, except that those teachings have been floating around the Catholic Church since at least when I was still one.

But thanks for linky linky, it's a very timely article.

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