[VadeRetro]

THE Vatican has issued a stout defence of Charles Darwin, voicing strong criticism of Christian fundamentalists who reject his theory of evolution and interpret the biblical account of creation literally.

Now they're gonna get it. Most of those fundies never liked Catholicism anyway.

[The Red Zone]

One Cardinal may or may not be the stand of "the Vatican." Like I said (kiddingly) if I ran Rome I would hate guessing and do flash polls of everybody including the Pope and zip it out to the internet to show where the buzz was. But I don't, and watchers have to live with the fact that they're the Slow Cookers of this Microwave generation.

[Seizure]

"Most of those fundies never liked Catholicism anyway."

Having been raised as a Catholic, I remember the church referring to the Bible as an allegory. Just simply symbolic not literal.

Well, I began to read God's Word. According to God's Word, the Bible is not an allegory...it is literal.

I began to study church history and devote greater observation to church practices. I then compared that history and those practices to scripture. They were not compatible with the Word.

I am no longer a Catholic.