No, interpreting the Bible literally was the dominant school thought until the 18th century. I linked you the Wiki.
Indeed, it's 3/10 Americans. Bring me a more comprehensive study with a greater population. In fact, only 73% of Americans identify themselves as Christian. I strongly doubt that the remaining 27% are interpreting the bible literally, since, by definition, they would therefore identify as Christian. In other words, ~30/73 Christian Americans, or about 41%, interpret the bible literally. That's in the first world, 2012. Kind of puts a dent in the notion that literalists are a fringe theological subgroup.
Didn't read the biography of Origen, did you? He was a mystic. They were persecuted by the authoritative branches of the mainline churches:
Official church doctrines across the mainline were cut and dry before scientists left them in tatters.
Indeed, theists tend to be less educated (and less intelligent by the various methods we use to measure intelligence) than their atheist counterparts. There have been threads linking studies testifying to the truth of each of these claims. The latter was more recent, and cited review of the entire history of studies into this question.
Nevertheless, if we're going to speak in unsubstantiated generalizations, then IMO, they tend to know more about the Bible than they do about science or rational philosophy.
No, but the earth and evolution are observable truths, not belief systems. I'm calling bullshit you on your blatant revisionism, and also on your claim to speak authoritatively for all Christians on the history of Christian thinking.
Ooh, girls night out! Isn't it fun to pick and choose between an assortment of equally superstitious speculations in the nature of the universe? It's like shopping for clothes. There's no right answer! Just fun, fun, fun in the dressing room!
yes, i get to pick and chose what branch of christianity i follow. i mean, fuck, do you get to pick what philosophers you follow?
or what side of the big bag or multiple universe or holographic universe belief you follow???
I believe the catholic teaching is most true with what i get out of the bible and it has been around the longest
again, what 70% of people say DOES NOT MAKE IT SO.
now, if you tell me 70% of people WHO AHVE ACTUALLY READ THE BIBLE and went to church more than 2x a year and did research and read the christian apologetic take the Bible literally, then you would have a case. but you don't.
As far as Christianity being against "learning"
um
Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth all started off as christian universities
lol, but hey, lets throw up Galileo as what the church did to every scientist.
and let throw up Truman as every president and every president's term we nuke a country
lol, do you read your wiki? from your wiki
Biblical literalism (also called Biblicism or Biblical fundamentalism) is the interpretation or translation of the explicit and primary sense of words in the Bible.[1][2] A literal Biblical interpretation is associated with the fundamentalist and evangelical hermeneutical approach to scripture
-lol, where does it say the catholic church in this blurb????
yes, i agree, FUNDAMETNALISTS take the bible literally
Origen, said some things that the church did not like
but okay
how about SAINT Irenaeus????
"Later Christians followed their example. Irenaeus of Lyons, in his work Against Heresies from the middle of the 2nd century, saw the story of Adam, Eve and the serpent pointing to the death of Jesus:
Now in this same day that they did eat, in that also did they die. But according to the cycle and progress of the days, after which one is termed first, another second, and another third, if anybody seeks diligently to learn upon what day out of the seven it was that Adam died, he will find it by examining the dispensation of the Lord. For by summing up in Himself the whole human race from the beginning to the end, He has also summed up its death. From this it is clear that the Lord suffered death, in obedience to His Father, upon that day on which Adam died while he disobeyed God. Now he died on the same day in which he did eat. For God said, 'In that day on which ye shall eat of it, ye shall die by death.' The Lord, therefore, recapitulating in Himself this day, underwent His sufferings upon the day preceding the Sabbath, that is, the sixth day of the creation, on which day man was created; thus granting him a second creation by means of His passion, which is that [creation] out of death."
