[Superman]

Jeff, you're just pretending to have the hots for Archie. Jake, you're right. Newman is a stud. But really though.....who's hotter than Wayne?

Markus, I disagree. And the disagreement is the fundamental disagreement between the "protestant" Christians and the Catholic model. The protestants think that you read the Bible, and decide for yourself what it says. Catholicism, to me, is not so much about somebody mandating a particular interpretation of a Bible passage. It is about whether I am free to "make it up as I go," or whether it is best to utilize the VAST body of historical and theological research done over the past twenty centuries.

To me, the Bible is not a document with the magical feature of having a flexible message depending on what I want it to say, or what it seems to say to me in my relative ignorance. No. It is a document that DOES say what it says and is quite complex and subject to misinterpretations. It is more convenient to make it up as we go, individually. It is much more illuminating and faithful to recognize and accept what it DOES say, regardless of whether that is convenient for me at the moment.

That's the rub between Catholicism and protestantism. Always was. Still is.