Reply #20: They are excellent educators, their positions on evolution are pristine. [View All]

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Evolution happened. They don't deny the science at all. What they say is that at some point, god took an interest in the primates and gave them the push that encouraged sentience. They say that Genesis is a myth.

I would not have gotten an education half as well developed if I'd been handed off to the Franciscans or the Dominicans. They trained my mind very well.

Talking to some of the priests I came into contact with years after, they admitted to me that one of the risks of teaching as well as they do is they only have a 50% indoctrination rate. Father Andrews - whom I still correspond with because I like him - often says that Jesuits turn out half of their charges as devout, reasonably liberal and positive Catholics, about a quarter end up as Charismatic Catholics (the dirty little secret of the Church, the CCs are the fundy types like Mel Gibson and are not to be given the time of day) and about a quarter end up agnostic/atheist or other non-believers.

If they'd just pick up on the fact that they're ignoring half of the potential brains available by ignoring women, and recognize that God's stopped providing so we've got to stop multiplying, I'd still consider myself a cultural Catholic. But I disagree with too much of that sort of thing.

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