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So you take God's word literally? If only it were true! I guess you assume that us Catholics are not only spiritually illiterate but that we also have no memories. Having seen you frequently poor scorn on the Catholic belief of the Real Presence in the Eucharist, in spite of the clear words of Jesus in Ch. 6 of John's Gospel (......"my flesh is real food"......), I'm inclined to think that you also suffer from the same malady with which you believe Catholicism to be afflicted. It's patently obvious from your own collective Scriptural.......*cough*........."exegeses" offered on this site over a considerable period that your own Biblical insights are every bit as whimsical and arbitrary as those which you ascribe to Catholics. "Believing God" is apparently a problem for you also when it suits.

Nope...I believe Jesus said 'my flesh is real food'...And I believe Jesus said eat my flesh...

But realizing Jesus gave no one the authority or ability to change those little wafers into His flesh, nor yours, I realized there was more to the meaning of those scriptures than meets the eye...

Jesus said 'break' the bread...You guys don't do that...Jesus said drink the wine...You guys don't even do that...

You have not only made a mockery of what Jesus said to do, you added a fairy tale to the mix that gives you the ability and suthority to perform these feats even tho Jesus never spoke about any such thing...

You guys can perpetuate the charade of turning wine into blood even tho it still tastes, feels, looks, acts and walks and talks like wine without any scriptural means to make it so, but at the same time, you reject anything such as a trinitarian man with tons of scriptural support...

Shoot, most Catholics don't believe in your 'real presence'...Why would you expect a non Catholic holding a bible in his hands to believe something like that...

The thing which fascinates me, however, is the utter conviction and total absence of self-doubt with which you trash 2,000 years of tradition, scholarship and saintly insight. What causes a man to pick up a Bible, read a few passages and instantaneously proclaim Aquinas or Basil or Benedict to be a dunce or a devil? Is it pride? Lack of prudence? Both of the above?

Doesn't a sane man pause before placing his own opinion above all of this?

Not for half a second...And I don't believe your pope is a dunce...No doubt he's pretty smart and very educated...

The Hindus have more than 2000 years of tradition...I don't buy into that either...

Scholarship you say??? One of your scholars who had a major influence on your beliefs was Origen...And his big thing was that most of the scriptures were a metaphor...That's what he pushed...And it took hold...

So that's where they left you...You can't read and study scripture out of the sight of your religion...And your religion teaches you that you can't believe literally most of the scriptures BUT you are to believe the many, many add-ons that your religion created which goes against the will of God...And they told you not to believe THAT either...

I give your scholars no more credit than I give the Hindu scholars...

There's a vast difference between a theological scholar and a biblical scholar...