On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Andre Uratsuka Manoel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Supriya Nair <[email protected]> wrote: >> I wasn't aware that Catholic teachings in the States trod the Proddie line >> on this count? For some reason I was under the impression that Creationism >> is a preoccupation particular to [some] Protestant sects in the United >> States. Several Catholic friends have told me that their church discussions >> [in Bombay] have been holding up this view of things for a while now - to >> say nothing of state schools run by parishes which teach both the Catechism >> and evolution; thankfully not in the same class. > > I studied for 11 years in Catholic schools and religion teachers > seemed very unconcerned with Evolution as a problem to faith. I > remember how surprised I was the first time I heard of someome taking > Creationism seriously. > > Now the meme has spread here among several fundamentalist churches and > they usually repeat all the same talking points.
Biblical literalism is a fairly new trend in Christian theology -- a couple of hundred years at most. Having to interpret the meaning is so much more convenient for maintaining the power of the priesthood. -- b
