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I went to Catholic schools and there I learned that evolution/big-bang were church doctrine, the Bible is not the literal word of God but divinely inspired, and

I went to Catholic schools and there I learned that evolution/big-bang were church doctrine, the Bible is not the literal word of God but divinely inspired, and that God probably wouldn’t hold it against a just non-believer when it came to determining their fate. So I’m not sure when your friend went to this school or if they were in a weird sect (mine was Jesuit) but it does not match my experience

heavyset_go 4y ago
This was a conservative area at the height of Republicans' push to teach "intelligent design" in schools instead of evolution. I wouldn't be surprised if this was the result of tribalism, or deliberately not teaching certain things to keep parents happy. At the time, parents were sending kids to private schools so they wouldn't be "indoctrinated" into an atheist/scientific agenda with evolution in the curriculum.