What does the RCC say about the Great Flood described in the Bible?

[marylandblue]

49. I didn't say take it out, I said it wasn't the point.

They lived in a dangerous and mysterious world, an angry God was not the point and not a metaphor, it was a reality.

Put yourself in the mind of a Bronze Age peasant. Your daily life is of backbreaking labor.You didn't retire, you worked until you dropped. The king or lord has the power of life and death over you.

If you got seriously ill, you probably died, except in a few mysterious cases, people suddenly got better. You could expect most of your children to die before adulthood.

Sometimes there was drought and famine. Other times there were floods. You never knew when the rains would fail, when they would return, or when there would be too much rain.

Foreign armies could show up at any time and gleefully slaughter your village. If you were lucky, they let you live in slavery. If you were really lucky, they only raped your wife and stole all your possessions.

And you think the point of the story is that God gets angry? That's like saying the point of Mutiny on the Bounty is that people sailed in wooden ships. Of course they did, there wasn't any other kind of ship. And in the Bronze Age, there was no time or place safe from an angry god.