To: Gumlegs
"To be fair to Pat (irritating, in and of itself), the Pope never actually required anyone to believe in evolution. The church's position, as I understand it, is that belief in evolution need not be inconsistent with Catholicism." Funny how when I was a kid in the 50's and 60's it was the Catholics who were considered living in the dark ages....now it is most visible in the bailiwick of certain Protestant sects....and by that I mean those that call themselves Fundamentalists (of course you cant get more fundamental than the RC Church or one of the Orthodox Churches.)
95 posted on
08/07/2005 9:35:01 AM PDT by
Vaquero
(Lets all play the Christian of European ancestry brand of Jihad.....its called 'THE CRUSADES')
To: Vaquero
I have devout RC relatives who believe that evolution is the work of the devil.
Judging from your post, we were kids at roughly the same time. The ... mistrust ... in those days went both ways. Case in point: Mrs. Gumlegs was the product of a (gasp!) mixed marriage. She attended parochial schools, and reports that on the last day of school one year, the priest told her class to avoid speaking to Protestants over the summer. She raised her hand and asked if should avoid talking to her father.
She was always viewed with suspicion at her school.
103 posted on
08/07/2005 9:46:16 AM PDT by
Gumlegs
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