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Originally Posted by Ch40s
Sure, but people don't say "God created this hurricane by swirling his finger in the ocean". We know how hurricanes are formed.
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To a person that believes god created the hurricane, what's the difference? Sure they know it don't form by god stirring his finger in the ocean, but they still think it was created by god.
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Originally Posted by Ch40s
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.
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Nobody has said anything about anybody being stupid, and this discussion is about how the Catholic church
denying the literal Adam and Eve stuff anyway.
You seem to be saying "sure, the people who take it seriously might deserve criticism, but the rest of us who just pay lip-service don't". That seems a little flimsy to me.
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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?
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We're allowed to criticize whoever we want.
They are interfering with scientific study, public policy and public education. And it's tax-free!