Woah the pope supports the idea of evolution? damn i didn't know that and im catholic.....
The Pope does lot of things.
Also, you have to watch out for those numbers. For example, the believe in Evolution thingy is for the US only, and the US not a representative for the world.
The macromeme quote is a macromeme quote.
The bad thing about internet quotes is that you can never be sure that it is correct, or that the person in question actually said that.
-Abraham Lincon
To continue, most of the shooling system in Europe is Religously inspired. (Meaning you have a mass at the beginning of the year, and one at the end. And crosses everywhere, but that's because the buildings quite old.)
"Blah blah, you support gays and non-christians, so GOD HATES YOU!"
I've developed a healthy respect for many religious people. Some of their beliefs are literally so hard to uphold in the face of scrutiny that it takes serious bravery to defend them... Against reality. Do I disagree with it? Yes, but it's still a hard feat to achieve.
This. It's pretty impressive sometimes. They're like, "Everything in the bible is amazing and the word of god."
And I'm like, "Even that part in Dueteronomy where they talk about making food with human dung?"
And they're like, "Ssssh. That was a metaphor."
To be fair, human dung was used to cook food in those days. Or maybe the Bible was just ahead on ecologism.
Anyway, the Bible is composed of 2000 years of mistranslations, manipulations, errors and intrepretations of a text which was probably cryptic in the first place.
Christianity is not the Bible, it's but a mere intrepretation of it. (Actually it's more or less than that).^
As for listening to the Pope, it's not mandatory. We don't live in a theocrazy anymore.