This has a new significance with the Pope scandal

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Originally Posted by LikeAWillow

From Catholic.com

[. I would say that it's a delicate line to walk, but that's not true-- it's an impossible one. It's interesting to see how they try to do it, though.

Personally I feel that it's an extremely easy line to walk when you realize that it's an allegory, and that the tiny little details aren't important when compared to the whoppingly huge important concept, that man is imperfect as-is and needs help 'cause we'll NEVER make it alone.

And - just opinion of course but - it REALLY IS true that we can't. Think about the TIME FRAME of this. Some people feel that without Christianity, Rome never would have fallen. They WOULD have found the bomb sooner or later, and then you have Russia, China and Rome all with the bomb. That's "checkmate in five moves." There's another thing too - The original colonists left because of religious persecution. Okay, sure, that was bad - but they left BECAUSE of CHRISTIANITY. That led to the U.S., and the U.S. defeated Germany in WW II. Germany would have gotten the bomb too. They almost HAD it, in fact. Again, a situation with two or three evil empires - Germany, Russia (maybe), and Japan - and they all have the bomb. No way, jose.
Just give them a few paltry hundreds or thousands of years, and they'll use it, fer sure. Original sin? Who needs it when you have bombs sitting around that can blow up the whole world.... So maybe from that point-of-view, the take-home message is MUCH more important than the details - that man is imperfect and needs to trust God more than his own knowledge or what he *thinks* is true. Primordial man was arrogant to think that he could just keep on making powerful empires and stronger and stronger weapons - but that path automatically leads to the bomb, and that leads to extinction. And yes, assuming there is a God and all that, I really do feel that the bomb was a heavy player in all this - how could it NOT be?
I think there's even some indications that it is in the Bible - everywhere you look, the take-home message is, "Chill, mankind, you DON'T have all the facts and you're headed down a REALLY bad path here - TRUST me that that's true." Obviously primeval man never could have envisioned something the size of an atom being able to blow up an entire city.
Just some thoughts.