A Catholic cardinal says that Adam and Eve didn't exist. Gee, ya think? While that isn't surprising to free-thinkers or even "believers" who aren't fundamentalists, it must be shocking to the Catholic community in general. In fact, you'd expect the Pope to be spitting mad at the guy about now.
Cardinal George Pell made what could be controversial remarks to some followers when he made the following comment:
It's a very sophisticated mythology to try to explain the evil and the suffering in the world. It's a religious story told for religious purposes.
The Catholic cardinal expressed during an appearance, alongside Richard Dawkins, that the story of Adam and Eve in the Bible didn't factually happen. It was just a story meant to describe the hardships in the world. Well okay. That's far more believable than the thought of an omnipotent being constructing a woman from the rib of a man he made from scratch, since that has already been proven anatomically incorrect on a very basic level.
Certainly some people are going to take offense to this cardinal's comments and even accuse him of being a fraud, as that appears to be the defense of those who feel threatened in their beliefs. It's still interesting, nonetheless, to see such a high up religious figure admit that the Bible does not contain facts!
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Comments: 10 ( 2 removed by Chelsea Hoffman )
There are a lot of people who are drawn to become religious leaders for the power or the prestige... it really doesn't mean they believe anything nor does it mean they are kind. I read about one woman who had lost a loved one and was having a hard time with it and she was asked to leave her role with a church because she was told she was not a good "example" by the minister. Having that role might have been one thing she got out of bed for.. I thought it was incredibly cruel. Unfortunately, sometimes the business end is more important that the human part of it...in a lot of churches.
The pursuit of human intelligence, and the sharing of, is far more important than random religious belief that are counterproductive to development and human progress in the big scheme of things. If an intelligent person who happens to be religious wants to share with his followers the fact that the Adam n Eve story isn't factually correct, then he is doing a service to mankind. Remaining silent so as to appease the over-sensitive few is a disservice to mankind -- which is, again, more important than a few archaic religious beliefs.
Did you know that people once believed that rats spontaneously appeared in wheat that was left uncovered? And that maggots spontaneously sprouted from decomposing meat? This was the belief of the religious, and when it was questioned by scientists (who ultimately proved it wrong) they were treated badly as well. All of us can look back at that and laugh today.. Naturally the same can be said about things like this in the future.
I find the Cardinals words very interesting.
"It's a very sophisticated mythology to try to explain the evil and the suffering in the world."
The book of Genesis does explain why evil and suffering is in the world. And the other books of the Bible support the same explaination.