"And for your edification, evolution is about CHANGE. Period. It has NOTHING to do with "perfection" but has everything to do with understanding. It is entirely possible to be a Christian and NOT take the Old Testament creation stories literally for one reason: They are meant to be morality stories. They teach a lesson about the strength of God and the fallibility of man, but also that man can redeem himself. The point of the flood story isn't that someone built a boat and put animals on it, it's that GOD GIVES SECOND CHANCES."
There is a difference in following the Words of Christ and what a church holds as doctrine.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was with God, and the WORD was God.
Now how convenient that church teaches don't take such and such literally when Paul himself said these thing happened to them for our warning as to what the end of this age would be.
Now you are FREE to choose what you choose to believe but you have NO authority to LORD over others supremacy of your belief when it downplays the very WORD of God.
Christ said let NO man deceive you and that has been my search to avoid that deception by man.
So you let a book think for you?
That quote about a book being God is faintly reminiscent of what another group of literalists believes. Are we to not touch the Bible unless we wear gloves, too?
Say what you want, but to me the Bible isn't God anymore than the koran is. God is God, the Bible is a book. And amazing how you can keep sliming the faith of millions of Christians who happen to accept the teaching of The Vicar of Christ. Would 'twere that we all had your insight into the Bible.
Newsflash, Sparky....the Catholic Church has a 2000 year history of knowing the Bible and helping people understand it. Keep talking down to other Christians and you might find you'll create more atheists than believers. And as for church doctrines, literalism is a doctrine in itself, Chuckles, or hadn't you caught that little factoid?
You have no idea what my beliefs are, but you can rag on my church and what you think it teaches? Who gave you that authority? Who made you final arbiter of what is or is not Christianity?