[Iscool]

Luk 2:21 And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
Luk 2:22 And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;
Luk 2:23 (As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)

They made up this ridiculous fairy tale and somehow convinced each other that it's true...

Jesus didn't go thru the womb...Luke is telling a lie...Then they want to convince us that there are many mediators between man and Jesus...But then they don't even know if their mediators made it to heaven...WoW...What a religion...

[xzins]

See #554 & 555

This has been an eye-opening discussion for me; this thread and another. I had no idea that Catholics believed these things.

I used to have a list of "Major reasons why I am not a Catholic" issues:

1. Immaculate Conception
2. Assumption
3. Opulence

I'm about to the point of adding this: "hymen-preserving birth experience" to the the list. I can't really tell, though, if it is actually required Catholic teaching.

There are other things I disagree with, especially the treatment of scripture, but those are the specific issues that are at the top of my list.