[DittoJed2]

Well, at least thank you for your honesty. Incidentally, the allegorist interpretation of Scripture was only made popular since the time of Augustine. Early Christians took the Bible literally. The Catholic church follows Augustine's interpretation, and honestly, I could tell you were Catholic by your interpretation of Christian beliefs. That is not an insult or anything of the like. I know what the Catholic church teaches, and I know where they got it from. I know where Augustine got it from as well, and it wasn't from Jesus or Paul.

[Aric2000]

I said I was raised a Roman Catholic, not that I was one still.

That's fine though, but a literal interpretation of the bible is not at all what Jesus believed, he believed in allegory, morality tales etc, he used them extensivly throughout his ministry, where do you think he learned it?

It is called the OLD testament.