Really, wow, because that’s funny, I read where he explicitly denied that it was merely literature. But i guess when your sole purpose is to bash Catholicism, everything the pope says looks like a nail, huh?
And I read in the article at the top of this thread where he warned Catholics not to interpret the Bible "literally" (ie, don't believe Genesis 1-11 actually ever happened).
Why doesn't your "conservative" Pope (who doesn't even believe in "original sin," btw) ever come out and say that Genesis 1-11 is literal history if he wants to teach that? He doesn't say it because he doesn't believe it! The Vatican and the bishops can't make it any clearer--Catholics are all but forbidden to believe all the Biblical events actually happened! "Biblical literalism" is "dangerous." Those are your Pope's words, not mine!
Why wouldn't I bash a religion that is committed to the destruction of something I hold dear . . . especially a hypocritical religion that lets Indians keep their totem poles but won't let a poor redneck boy keep Genesis because it's "dangerous?" Totem poles aren't "dangerous" but Genesis 1-11 is!
There are two words for a person who insists the creation narrative simply can't be true because "we now know the world doesn't work like that" but who simultaneously claims Mary shot the sun all over the place in Portugal in 1917: one of them is Catholic; the other is hypocrite.
"Home?" "Mother?" Something so utterly alien? The fact that Catholics continue to make that claim is infuriating.