| Why is everyone so shocked to find out that Catholics are encouraged to think for themselves?
Of course, I am talking about the Vatican astronomer claiming that there probably is life on other planets, and the pope's subsequent decree that "believing in aliens is not against the Christian faith".Yet everyone has been posting questions in disbelief."The Vatican LETS you believe in things?"No, it doesn't. Catholics are free to -gasp- think for themselves. We are free to study science and come to our own conclusions about evolution. We are free to study astronomy and come to our own conclusions about life on other planets.The pope is NOT a guy in a multi-million dollar stadium "worship center" telling us what to think. We are NOT mindless drones using the Bible as a Biology, History, and Physics book.Catholics have been this way for years. Why are people so astonished?P.S. My Bible, in the footnotes for the story of Genesis, actually refers to it as an "obviously allegorical story".My BIBLE says that. Go figure. If it's in the Bible it has to be true, right?---Actually, Catholics believe in salvation through good works, NOT faith, so we are also free to believe whatever we want, too.
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