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...
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.