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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
You may not but plenty of people do. Like,say, a Hurricane God. They don't call it a Hurricane God of course, but he apparently has plenty to do with Hurricanes, depending on who you ask.
"God struck New Orleans because it is wicked".
"By the Grace of God my house wasn't destroyed by the Hurricane".
"God decided it was her time, and my mother drowned in the attic".
"God willing, we'll rebuild this city".
"The insurance company said it was an Act of God, and replaced my Cressida almost immediately".
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Sure, but people don't say "God created this hurricane by swirling his finger in the ocean". We know how hurricanes are formed.
I'm not a deeply religious person by any means, I just don't think religion deserves half of the flack it receives. Even generally religious people I know do not necessarily practice Catholicism frequently (ie read the bible every month). It's more of a way of going about your life and how you think about things.
Perhaps there are some "higher ups" who take their religion more seriously who deserve some criticism when it comes to their views and how they attempt to push it on others, but to say Catholics are stupid because they think from Adam and Eve stemmed the world's 6 billion people is just plain ignorant. Especially when most "practical Catholics" just use the morals of the religion to help strengthen their everyday lives.
Edit: And unless the "fundamentalist churches that maintain a literal interpretation of the Bible, including the belief that the world was created in six days" are somehow interferring with something such as a vital scientific study, I don't see the need to criticize their beliefs. I know I, for one, have never met someone like this, so why do we need to insult them? Even if Catholics all believed in creationism, why should we need to pick their religion apart when 95% of them never do anything to antagonize atheists, etc?