Who Ya Callin' Infallible?

Well, not the Catholic Church as it turns out. Bishops in England, Scotland and Wales have added some small print to their parishioners understanding of the bible:

The Catholic bishops of England, Wales and Scotland are warning their five million worshippers, as well as any others drawn to the study of scripture, that they should not expect “total accuracy” from the Bible.

“We should not expect to find in Scripture full scientific accuracy or complete historical precision,” they say in The Gift of Scripture.

Would've been good to know that a few hundred years ago. A lot of misunderstanding could have been avoided.

And what's this? The bible's riddled with factual inaccuracies?

Surely not.

Well, for a book in which God appears to undergo a full Katie Holmes-style-Scientology-assisted-personality-transplant between Testaments (paranoid vengeful psycho-dad always breathing down your neck - kill ya son! Go to Canaan! No, wait, don't go to Canaan! - Hang in the desert for 40 years! Why! Why!? WHY!? Because I TELL YA TO!!!!! - turns into ethereal distant presence)... that is none too surprising.