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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Catholicism shows how it is more a business than anything else in its stance on evolution. Rather than fight it and look like absolute laughingstocks as many of the imbecillic evangelicals and fundamentalists often do, Catholicism made a business decision to co-opt Darwin. It's brilliant. First, it makes them look progressive. Second, it allows them to argue everything biblical is allegorical, which makes their product maleable and impossible to refute (even though they talk out of both sides of their mouth with their "infallibility" thing). Third, they look reasonable in comparison to people as foolish and absurd as literalists (not that almost everybody doesn't already).
The question left is whether fools who actually believe the absurd are more dangerous than a shrewd business that claims to "believe," but hedges in ways that suggest it doesn't really believe and is just shucking and jiving to keep its flawed model running.
I'll say this - I won't even talk to a fundamentalist. I've met some and find them appalling the same way I find neo-Nazis and racists appalling.
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With logic like this, I have no doubt that we are descended from Monkeys.
