I received a copy of "Northwest Catholic" magazine in the mail. The article "Lost in Space" discusses astronomy and cosmology. There's nothing in that article that a
scientifically literate person would disagree with.

They want you to say that they're going to heaven, even if they're aren't reborn.

I don't need O_P to say that.  I'll settle for Jesus.

O_P is, of course, entitled to his opinion--based on what he thinks the Bible says.  Right?

That's funny. I was reborn at baptism just like everyone else...

Actually that is not an example of what he asked for.
The quote you provided is someone giving a parody.
He wasn't taking any single person to task for not understanding the bible or having false salvation.
Essentially, the above quoted post is a "you want to mischaracterize Catholics as believing in crazy nonsense that they don't actually believe in? We can do it to you too". Which is exactly what he said you could find an example of.
 

You assertion that the two sides 'don't want to be reconciled' is questionable (to put it mildly).

Two of the greatest contributors to our understanding of evolution (Father Gregor Mendel) and astrophysics (Father George Lemaitre) were Catholic priests, so it seems like the 'sides' get along perfectly well.

With some perhaps either denying this line of rhetoric, or ignorant of it, vxtip545 has done us all the favor of demonstrating precisely the type of Derp the Pope was speaking about.

He didn't get that stuff about "the human genome is breaking down" from the Bible, but from an entrenched industry of advanced studies in Derp that is more about profitability than scientific integrity.  Hence, the use of big "C" Creationism to identify it.

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In addition to your statement about "mischaracterized beliefs", there was more in there as well.

O-P basically said, "Catholics don't know anything about their faith, they're just trained to believe what the Vatican says and parrot and defend it without thought. Totally unlike us learned Protestants who really know the Bible."

I encountered this attitude a lot in my brief time in Southern Alabama. Catholics are wrong and don't know it because they don't really know Scripture and just do whatever some guy in Rome says. And then you toss in a lot of "the church is still selling indulgences!" and such.

Of course, when you probe and push, you discover something. Something O-P even admitted when people starting throwing challanges at his "Petros/petra" thing.
He does the same thing he accuses Catholics of. He doesn't "know" the argument (hence why he didn't have a response for the Cephas thing), he's just parroting what some scholar he agrees with told him. Typically in my time in Alabama, instead of defending what some guys in Rome said (which was bad of me to do!), they were just defending what some guy who stood in front of them for a few hours every Sunday said (which was a-okay for them to do).

We've seen that attitude here in other, older threads. Some guy will say, "Catholics are selling indulgences! I know a guy who went and bought one!" At which the Catholic Crew will respond, "That's ridiculous. We never see that, and an indulgence is stupidly easy to get for free by doing simple things yourself." At which point the response will invariably be, "Nu-uh, they totally are. My preacher told me he went and got one!"

My comment also rolls up the "KJV uber alles!" attitude that I find so very amusing.  

I also hate modern praise and worship music, mostly because it's not very good music. Including the crap that's Catholic. The RCC should declare that the Church's views on capital punishment should not apply to anybody that willingly plays a Marty Haugen song.

ETA: And, of course, our scholars and authority guys have been at it a lot longer than anybody else. A lot. And I can quote sources from the 100s to the 400s on the Peter thing.

ETA2: And, yes, as somebody else said, I did mean it to be more along the good natured ribbing lines. I do think O-P is a good guy and solid in his belief in Jesus, which makes him closer to me and more worth defending on the whole than any non-Christian could ever be.

As a note to this and from what I've gathered from reading people like Scott Hahn (a learned former Presbyterian graduate of Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary) is that we wouldn't call many Protestant beliefs wrong, but rather incomplete.

Some are wrong though.

I, of course, would recommend any of Scott Hahn's books to anybody, especially Protestants.

You telling me you haven't seen people on here and out in the world who proclaim that the KJV is the only legitimate translation of the Bible that exists to the point of claiming it was directly inspired by God himself?

I've never seen anyone saying its the only legitimate version (although it is my favorite and I think undoubtedly the most historically important English translation).

Mostly I've seen people pointing out that it was written for political purposes.

That little bit of truth always pisses them off....

Douay–Rheims uber alles!

There is no doubt that the KJv is one of the more beautifully-written translations.

That said, it's missing a few books that were inconvenient to the Protestant "Reformists"...

We used to get it a lot, though most avoid saying it now because they know how shaky their logic is - but they still believe it.  It's the same with how most long-time posters people are more hesitant to spout the derpiest and most readily disproved YEC rhetoric (heck, I still see some acting like we are makign it up, but some newer poster will always come in and show it isn't a strawman).

It got so bad, I started long ago only citing Bible passages from the KJV, as any other text would be inevitably challenged.

So, just all "you Catholic guys" then?  Yeah, you didn't use the word "all".

The Jerusalem Bible is an awesome resource once you take all the introductions and footnotes into account.  It's like a Bible, a theological treatise and a history text in the same book.

Good summary here:  Pope Francis' Big Bang  Hits on many of the points already mentioned in this thread.

Nice to see informed Catholics pushing back against this secularism = science/religion= superstition meme (see: Neil deGrasse Tyson's Cosmos reboot).  It isn't like there's a lack of historical facts to rebut this sort of nonsense.

 

It really is a nice sentiment, and it goes in the micro direction as well.

http://media.hhmi.org/biointeractive/films/Evolving_Switches_Evolving_Bodies.html