d destroy the barbarism of the "Cannibals" and guide them to a more humane and virtuous life. However, reason as Montainge showed quite clearly places the "Cannibals" out of the barbaric state to which the Europeans claim superiority, and as Mendieta observed some "Cannibals" remain so pure that they do not know how to sin. Clearly this posed some valid opposition to the Church's paradigms and power, by presenting an alterative working paradigm.Such problems do not arise from the religion its self, but from the Christian institution. The goal of Christianity is to direct peoples lives so they can get to heaven, not to explain the heavens. Before there was any concrete science religion had to be both a way of life and an explanation of life. Christianity went wrong in trying to place all confidence in the word of God though human envoys. What documents does Christianity have that came directly from God? Jesus did not write any of the Bible directly. Not even the Ten Commandments came to us directly from God, free from human envoy. And whether they are God's exact words or not, they still set down some guidelines on how to live. Even if you throw out the Bible's story of creation as a literal story of creation, it holds value as a parable—it speaks of the vice of temptation. It could be that creation is speaking of the human race's descent from one spontaneous creation of human intellect, or the creation of the male and female mind, not literally man and woman.Christianity has to accept the element of human imperfection in the Bible. Even those divinely inspired are subject to the imperfection of their individual human incarnate. How can any mortal being possibly fully understand God—the things that God puts in the revelations of our profits? Our profits are human, St. Peter couldn't even speak Latin, Mark, his interpreter, wrote most of his testament through Pete's witness. But of course, we can still extract ...
