Not in the least.
This is about the church knowingly and openly contradicting what the Bible says, not twisting and interpreting what it says in a way no sane human ever would.
A few points on this, first of all the bible is a work of
man not God (as the major denominations
know because they created it!) so the major denominations would claim by definition that it
has to be flawed, and that does not mean it
could be flawed it means the church knows it will be found to be flawed.
As a fan, I would feel quite justified to point out that, say, George Lucas is talking a load of bullocks if he announced that Princess Leia was not the Sister of Luke Skywalker.
That would seem to be you placing what the films say above what their creator says, that is not the order of precedence as far as the major Christian denominations are concerned.
Also, the difference here is that the same person would be the source of the contradicting information. Lucas *could* extend the story and explain how it was all a huge mistake that they ever tohught to be siblings. Neither Lucas nor any characters in the Star Wars Universe claim inerrant knowledge about everything, do they?
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Again you have to remember all man's works are flawed,
even the church, you seem to be want to criticise the major churches for something they do not claim. (It does get slightly more complex than this but lets stay with the broad stroke approach - the RCC especially has been discussing all the nuances of this point for centuries - so it is impossible without taking a doctrine in theology to even briefly cover the detail!)
Re: Tradition of Celibacy
In what twisted universe does that make for a coherent argument? Nothing ever is more or less justified or more or less contradicting the Bible depending on how long it has been going on.
The tradition must have started somehow and somewhere and some time. Was the justification good back then?
Again this is an organisation that has over a
thousand years to work out how
in its own view it is not contradicting itself; it's founded whole departments that have worked on these ideas
constantly for centuries, there really is nothing else like it in the annuals of human history so as far as the church is concerned what we consider to be contradictions are
our lack of understanding.
Of course these changes
are contradictory when viewed from outside the church, I am not arguing they aren't, I'm just trying to make sure we deal the claims the major churches actually make, so we don't waste our time inadvertently criticising strawmen such as giving the bible a status not to be found within those major churches.
