[Natural Law]

"but in practice it is regarded as a sign of disloyalty to the Catholic Church and of incipient Protestantism."

Certainly, those who want to be offended can always find a reason to be. Your problem appears to be with certain Catholics, but you blame the entire Church. Why is that?

Catholic Freepers steadfastly proclaim in these threads that "practice" by Catholics does not set dogma or doctrine. I have even stated that even if 99.9% of Catholics practice birth control that does not mean that the Church endorses it.

I suspect that the issue is bigger than the interpretation of the first 11 books of Genesis. Creation is simply a convenient surrogate.

I suspect that your real issue is with the authority of the Magisterium and your confidence that you can infallibly interpret Scripture for yourself. If you were as orthodox a literalist as you profess then you would be a Cathlolic because of the Revelation regarding the Real Presence and the formation and governance of the Church. You certainly would not blaspheme the Virgin Birth by using terms like "magic babies".

[Zionist Conspirator]

I suspect that your real issue is with the authority of the Magisterium and your confidence that you can infallibly interpret Scripture for yourself.

I do not believe in sola scriptura and I acknowledge and submit to an authoritative oral interpretive tradition. It just isn't yours.

If you were as orthodox a literalist as you profess then you would be a Cathlolic because of the Revelation regarding the Real Presence and the formation and governance of the Church. You certainly would not blaspheme the Virgin Birth by using terms like "magic babies".

You forget that I was Catholic for six years. Only G-d and I know how hard I tried to conform to the Church. But every time I picked up a Catholic publication, magazine, book, newspaper, tract, etc., I saw articles attacking my belief in the literal truth of Genesis 1-11 as "Protestant." Too bad those publications couldn't attack abortion and homosexuality with the same enthusiasm.

Would it help you at all if I told you that over a period of years I corresponded about four times with the late Archbishop Whelan of Hartford, CT? He was an enthusiastic anti-literalist who kept telling me how much "joy" I would find as I allowed the Church to guide me away from an "always literal" interpretation. This is the same jerk who filed amicus curae briefs with the ACLU against "creation science" in public schools.

I will keep on ridiculing "magic babies" and every other miracle hypocrites believe in while ridiculing me for my belief in the literal historical truth of Genesis 1-11. Deal with it.