i'm completely with you on the "they aren't essentially mutually contradicting" position, and completely sympathise with the problems created by fundie creationists in america. it's not such a big issue in australia, where portillo and i live.
i was raised catholic, and from it the only thing i learned, and it's a valuable one, is to be a christian, you need to be "christ-like". it's how the monastic church actually started! simply be a good and fair and honest person to others, and all will be well. a higher life would be to teach others how to be this, but anything else is a corruption of church.
at the end of the day, if there were dinosaurs or the devil planted the bones to trick us, either way it makes absolutely no difference to our daily lives. there is what we can learn with our methods of science, and there are those which we can not.
i was raised catholic, and from it the only thing i learned, and it's a valuable one, is to be a christian, you need to be "christ-like". it's how the monastic church actually started! simply be a good and fair and honest person to others, and all will be well. a higher life would be to teach others how to be this, but anything else is a corruption of church.
at the end of the day, if there were dinosaurs or the devil planted the bones to trick us, either way it makes absolutely no difference to our daily lives. there is what we can learn with our methods of science, and there are those which we can not.
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