We also learned about proper evolution and legitimate science in the appropriate classes. To attribute death to sin would have been absurd, regardless of what it says in the Bible.

We were always taught not to take the Bible literally as well. Though none of the classes was a deep Bible study at all.

Also, this was high school. I didn't attend a Catholic grade school, so it's possible the had already covered this theme there and everyone was just supposed to know it. I just find it strange that I'd never even heard an inkling of it throughout all of high school.

Everything I remember about sin in a religious context from school, involved the afterlife. And in Catholicism not all sins are equal either.