Section 1. That the following language be stricken as unworkable from the US Constitution, Article I, Section 10: "No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility. No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress." Section 2. And be replaced with "All States, for the protection of their citizens, may reject any Treaty, Alliance, or Confe...
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So, is this really the position of the Catholic Church? Does the Church really believe that Adam and Eve really existed, had a direct relationship with a diety and would have lived forever had they obeyed this diety? Does the Church really believe in Original Sin being as a result of their disobedience and that our suffering and death was caused by it?
What part of that do you not understand?
The fall from grace isn't about longevity. In fact, there's quite a bit of historical evidence that says the ancient Hebrews used a much different numbering system- and in that numbering system, Methuselah lived to the ripe old age of 86 years.
That Original Sin can cause suffering and death, however, is observable in the lives of atheists right now. Atheists make a wonderful control group for the existence of Original Sin, especially in their suicide rate.
There is another religion that has lasted through the death of 6 civilizations, that gives 1.2 billion people the strength to put up with amazing levels of persecution, that fights against superstition, ignorance, and suffering consistently.
There's a third religion that has lasted through the death of 10 civilizations, the persecution of the ignorant period of the first religion in my list, and invented the modern banking system.
Your atheism would deny all three of these their proper place in the advancement of human civilization. And I bet you can't even guess which three religions I'm talking about, except maybe the first. But all three are more rational than atheism will ever be.
That theology (that the creator of the universe is unreasonable/random) is really common outside of Christianity. It kept the Greeks and Egyptians from developing science 2000 years earlier; it kept the Romans from discovering Portland Cement and reinforced concrete, it kept the Chinese from using gunpowder in warfare, it ended the Arabic invention of algebra and prevented them from learning calculus.
And I believe that despite the advances of secular America, third to sixth generation Protestant churches have turned Sola Scriptura into exactly the same trap.
If there is anything Atheists and Catholics have in common, it is combatting this dangerous and anti-intellectual theology that threatens to undo all we have created and plunge us into another Dark Age, like it has so many, many times in the past.