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Salvation, it's really not a good idea for you and I to argue about this. I know from past posts that your bibles are "higher critical." But you don't know any better. The Catholic Church is your bible. The literal historical truth of Genesis 1-11 simply doesn't mean to you what it means to someone like me. It is for all practical purposes foreign to you, and you have no sentimental attachment to it. All your sentimental attachment is to the Catholic Church.

What do you have to say about the "commentary" in all those Catholic bibles you own . . . you know, the commentary teaching the documentary hypothesis and declaring Noah's Flood mythological? Why do you never show up when one of your co-religionists is attacking the literal truth of Genesis 1-11? And by the way, I notice that you only included Genesis 1 and not 2-11. Could it be that even a "conservative Catholic" like you doesn't believe any of that "outdated" stuff?

I find your lack of understanding of the issues I'm raising frustrating. If we keep up our arguments, I'm really afraid I'm going to get frustrated and say something I'm going to regret.

Why don't we just continue to benignly ignore one another? That's probably the best policy for both of us.