So, shockingly enough, the Pope (specifically Pope Benedict XVI) has come out with another little gem of wisdom sure to be handed down through the ages. Much like his recent edicts that condoms actually contribute to the spread of HIV, we are clearly dealing with facts in the real world. At an Easter homily last week he said that it was wrong to think that:
"in some tiny corner of the cosmos there evolved randomly some species of living being capable of reasoning and of trying to find rationality within creation, or to bring rationality into it...If man were merely a random product of evolution in some place on the margins of the universe, then his life would make no sense or might be a chance of nature. But no, reason is there at the beginning: creative, divine reason."
Creative I'll give you, divine is a different story. Those people that have the NERVE to bring rational thought to the dialogue of how we got here is just offensive. The very thought that a human life could be "chance" is a threat to organized religion because it would mean that no one is in control. And no one is a bigger proponent of controlling the masses than religion, particularly a gilded city whose power relies on the constant bartering of money for sins.
Why is nature in opposition of a divine creator (if that's what you choose to believe)? Why would this divine omnipotent being have made women's hips too small to bear children safely? Or wisdom teeth? Or remnant hair follicles? I CAN DO THIS ALL DAY.
C'mon Catholics, every time I think you're ready to outsmart the fundamentalists, you go and prove me wrong. Church teaching doesn't say that Roman Catholicism and evolutionary theory are enemies. And in a world where a good chunk of people still listen to the man in the fancy hat, it scares me that bad science and misleading faith are being spewed left and right to those who can't separate "The Pope says evolution isn't real" from "The Pope says no condoms with AIDS!"
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