As an outsider, it seems to me that much of Catholicism is just shit that somebody pulled out of a hat hundreds of years ago and then for some reason everyone believed was the will of God.
The Tupi Indians believed that when you die, two giant worms devour your stomach (thereby eating your soul), then an Amazonian god greets you at the gates to the afterlife by squirting chili juice in your eyes.
I don't know what happens when we die, but I know it's not that.
As an outsider, it seems to me that much of Catholicism is just shit that somebody pulled out of a hat hundreds of years ago and then for some reason everyone believed was the will of God.
For sure. At one point they made their followers pay the church to forgive their sins.
That's not what indulgences were at all. You were paying for religious to pray for you.
Right, to get you through purgatory to heaven. They were literally selling salvation
No, that's not how that works at all.
You speak more truth than you might realize.
Familiarize yourself with Russell's Teapot and the John Frum cults.
That's every religion, bub.
The Tupi Indians believed that when you die, two giant worms devour your stomach (thereby eating your soul), then an Amazonian god greets you at the gates to the afterlife by squirting chili juice in your eyes.
I don't know what happens when we die, but I know it's not that.
Personally I think the Samaritans have it right.