The head man from the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI, not only claims to know for a fact that God exists, he also “knows” that the mind of God conceived the universe. Imagine that, a little-old German dude in the 21st century “knows” what the mind of God was thinking some 13.7 billion years ago. Very impressive! The truth of the matter is that the Pope knows no more about God, or whether God even exists, than anyone else on the planet.
It’s so ironic that the Catholic Church, this bogus, corrupt organization, the one that condemned Galileo for stating that the Sun was at the center of our Solar System and not the Earth as previously dictated by the Church, is now an expert in all fields of science. This is the same Church that once condemned evolutionary theory as well, but now accepts it. It’s of no surprise that the Roman Catholic Church continues to make concessions to science, it has to, if it wants to try to maintain somewhat of a grip on reality and not lose its credibility (and membership) altogether that is.
In my view, the Pope and other Vatican leaders should refrain from making such totally absurd, stupid claims regarding God and the Big Bang. Their job is to continue to con people into believing all of the superstitious nonsense contained in the Bible, and as such maintaining the flow of money from the brain-dead believers flowing in. After all, at the end of the day the Catholic Church is nothing more than a business.
The article also states that the Church claims that the 6-day Creation described in the Book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible, is allegorical. DUH, really, what a revelation! My question to all of you Christians out there is: what about all of the other absurdities in the Bible, such as the story of the Garden of Eden; Adam and Eve; the Great Flood; Noah’s Ark; the talking animals; people living hundreds of years; the Virgin Birth; the Resurrection, etc.? Are these also allegorical? They’re all equally absurd. How come some of these things are claimed to be allegorical and some not? The reasonable and logical conclusion is that these things are all make-believe, nothing but mythology. Anyone who believes otherwise is not thinking clearly and no question applying faith (belief without evidence) to the subject at hand as opposed to logic and common sense. TGO
Refer to story below. Source: Reuters
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – God’s mind was behind complex scientific theories such as the Big Bang, and Christians should reject the idea that the universe came into being by accident, Pope Benedict said on Thursday.
“The universe is not the result of chance, as some would want to make us believe,” Benedict said on the day Christians mark the Epiphany, the day the Bible says the three kings reached the site where Jesus was born by following a star.
“Contemplating it (the universe) we are invited to read something profound into it: the wisdom of the creator, the inexhaustible creativity of God,” he said in a sermon to some 10,000 people in St Peter’s Basilica on the feast day.
While the pope has spoken before about evolution, he has rarely delved back in time to discuss specific concepts such as the Big Bang, which scientists believe led to the formation of the universe some 13.7 billion years ago.
Researchers at CERN, the nuclear research center in Geneva, have been smashing protons together at near the speed of light to simulate conditions that they believe brought into existence the primordial universe from which stars, planets and life on earth — and perhaps elsewhere — eventually emerged.
Some atheists say science can prove that God does not exist, but Benedict said that some scientific theories were “mind limiting” because “they only arrive at a certain point … and do not manage to explain the ultimate sense of reality …”
He said scientific theories on the origin and development of the universe and humans, while not in conflict with faith, left many questions unanswered.
“In the beauty of the world, in its mystery, in its greatness and in its rationality … we can only let ourselves be guided toward God, creator of heaven and earth,” he said.
Benedict and his predecessor John Paul have been trying to shed the Church’s image of being anti-science, a label that stuck when it condemned Galileo for teaching that the earth revolves around the sun, challenging the words of the Bible.
Galileo was rehabilitated and the Church now also accepts evolution as a scientific theory and sees no reason why God could not have used a natural evolutionary process in the forming of the human species.
The Catholic Church no longer teaches creationism — the belief that God created the world in six days as described in the Bible — and says that the account in the book of Genesis is an allegory for the way God created the world.
But it objects to using evolution to back an atheist philosophy that denies God’s existence or any divine role in creation. It also objects to using Genesis as a scientific text.
(Editing by Tim Pearce)
