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GeneDouglas
Samson: Catholic Encyclopedia
Jul 10 2008, 8:26 PM EDT | Post edited: Jul 10 2008, 8:26 PM EDT
The link above to the Catholic Encyclopedia, under Samson shows an article suggesting that the Catholic church does not take the Samson story as true. Instead, it takes the story to be Jewish legend, passed down from ancient times.

How many other stories are so fantastic that even the largest Christian church could not take it as literally true? The Garden of Eden? Noah? Jonah and the fish? The Tower of Babel?

And if the stories are not true, why do we teach them to children as true? Or even include them in modern day Bibles?

Meanwhile, I'm sure they believe in the literal interpretation of Jesus walkin on water, changing water into wine, raising the dead and so on, though those stories were likely made up a century after the Crucifixion, by people who had never met Jesus, but who inserted them into the hand-copied scriptures to increase their impressiveness to the unwashed masses. Do you find this valuable?    

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