Catholics are making it up.

What's special about catholics ... aren't all religions making it up?Is it somehow better if someone else made it up and then you are told to believe it?Enjoy

Each religion organization has text material that has stories someone else made up that they tell the followers to believe.Does that make the stories better? Does it make them less made up?Enjoy

I believe people can have spiritual experiences, however I also believe that any god/s that created a universe would be so unfathomably complex and so removed from our minuscule and ephemeral existence that any form of real communication would be impossible. At best poorly understood tid-bits, that are as bedded in the persons world-view as they are any piece of information for them will at best be poorly grasped, and only scantily understood through their personal world-view filter. Like communication between people that speak different languages, but raised to an incomprehensible power. One could not help but make up most of what they could then communicate to anyone else.In this vein any spiritual experience via intense prayer or meditation is mostly seen by how it reinforces your world-view -- what you have been taught and trained and told to see.Thus you see Jesus, a muslim sees Allah, a buddhist sees Buddha, a hindu sees Shiva, etc. It's the interpretation by the world-view.And this then reinforces your belief in your religion.EnjoyEdited by RAZD, : .Edited by RAZD, : .

Having existed through (and been a major cause of) the dark ages, while maintaining services in an archaic language that very few (church elites) understood, where pomp and ceremony were the drawing points for the crowds, I would expect no less.How do they compare to Orthodox Greek Christians?Enjoy

Nothing I can put in words. Feeling mostly.Enjoy

Mine neither, but they have been around as long as the Catholics, if not longer.And I think any ceremony or procession or need to get approval for anything (like weddings, etc) has to be made up. Can you think of any church is not involved in power and control of people and wealth?Enjoy