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Originally posted by Bring_Back_Shantz@Oct 20 2005, 03:29 PM
I'll never argue with you that some of what the church says is a little out of wack with reality (birth control vs AIDS for one), but that is a moral matter, this is a scientific debate, and in that context you implied that the Catholic Churc (the Pope in particluar) supports the idea of a literal interpretation of the entire bible, including the creation story, and that is just plain FALSE.
Argue the morality of condemming birthcontrol as a means of disesase prevention all you want, chances are I'll be on your side for most of that one, but don't go making completly FALSE statements to support your own dislike for the Catholic Church and religion in general.
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This directly from the Catholic Update...(AmericanCatholic.org)
The Roman Catholic Church teaches that the Bible communicates without error that truth which God intended for the sake of our salvation. Affirming biblical inerrancy (freedom from error) in that sense, it also resists modern attempts to make the Bible answer problems that the biblical authors never thought of. It resists attempts to take biblical texts that envisioned other situations and apply them without qualification to situations of our times. Some of the conflicts between Roman Catholic practices and "literal" interpretations of the Bible rest precisely on this point.
Sounds fairly literal to me? Is that enough directly from the horses mouth?