text: Of course it is not a lie.
  
  You have a plethora of personal opinions supported by unnamed “scholars” and an attitude.
  
  The Church has two thousands years, the Tradition of the Apostles, and has considered all of these issues more than a couple of times.
  
  There is no “stifling attitude toward intellectual inquiry”. You can stand outside the Church making faces at it, ranting at it, and giving it the bird.
  
  You just can’t do it within the Church.
  
  No functional organization, not even a divinely founded one, allows that.