Totally actually Dennys

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your condom breaks

you feel a lump on your breast

your friends are ignoring you

you’re stranded on an island 

you got rejected by a crush

you get into a car accident

you got stung by a bee/wasp

you got fired from your job

you’re in an earthquake

your tattoo gets infected

your house is on fire

you’re lost in the woods

you get arrested abroad

you get robbed

your partner cheated on you

you’re on a ship that’s sinking

you fall into ice

you’re stuck in an elevator

you hit a deer with your car

you have food poisoning

your pet passed away

you fall off of a horse

you or your friend has alcohol poisoning

you have toxic shock syndrome

*The Eucharist is the body of Christ under the appearances of bread and wine.

**God is bound to these sacraments, meaning he always gives grace through them when they are done, but he is not bound by these sacraments, meaning that God can do literally whatever he wants and can of course go around them and provide grace in other ways.

***7 sacraments, listed: Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Eucharist, Confession, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Matrimony.

Feel free to add nuance in the tags or talk about why you find the teachings strange! Let me know if there's anything utterly baffling that I didn't include!!!

Mary being the mother of God is also weird, but no weirder than the concept of Jesus generally.

The next six, and the one about the sacraments, don't seem strange at all to me; probably this is because I don't know enough Christianity.

also, the fact that every mass, catholics literally believe that they are actually physically, really, 100%, time traveling to the exact time and place of the last supper during the transubstatiation and. uh. dispensation of the eucharist and the grape juice

and also the fact that catholics will dig up, chop up, and parade around the remains of their saints and former bishops and popes if they are Sufficiently holy. they believe that these remains don't decompose and smell like roses because of how blesséd and holy they are. i was the only person that laughed out loud when the teacher was explaining this because i had never heard of this and it was so absurd to me (and my teacher who was also the headmaster was offended and called my parents about it). that same day i saw some of these in person, some pope's bones or something, and they did smell like roses. but that's like saying "if you acquire an object from snoop dog's person, it will smell like marijuana. this is one of life's unsolvable mysteries"

and also the insistence that the trinity is something that is IMPOSSIBLE for a human brain to understand. despite the fact that you can grok it with a drawing of a triangle

Aquaticanthrobotic is right Catholics do infact have an odd obsession with the Immaculate Conception and Mary. However, my understanding is this fascination with Mary has more to do with her being born without original sin and being the mother of god more than her being a virgin. And a virgin birth isn't even a thing thats exclusive catholicism.

The weird part is that the Church believed that Jesus was conceived through Mary's ear.

Well until they decided that was weird and stopped teaching that.

I have never once ever heard of the Eucharist being time travel to the actual last supper , it is representative of the last supper. Catholics do believe that after trasubstantiation the Eucharist is actually the body and blood of christ ( they believe that the apperance and taste doesn't change but it's Jesus' flesh.)

this is only after the hosts and wine have been consecrated ( Catholics only use wine that has a certian content of alcohol, Protestants and other christians might use grape juice) So Catholics don't time travel , they just engage in the cannabalism of their own God every Sunday.

Relics and Incorruptable corpses. From my understanding both sort of aren't a thing that's special to Catholicism and I'm pretty sure taking relics made of the saints body hasn't been a thing for quite some time now. They do move from church to church tho, like they go on tour. There's also different like levels of relic. It can be a finger, it can be a personal belonging, something they blessed etc.

Incorruptable corpses are weird there's a whole ass rating system so a mummified corpse can technically be incorrupt, also a single body part on the corpse can be incorrupt ( like the tounge) while the rest is not.

Up until today I have never heard of modern geocentrists in the catholic faith, these people are probably the same outliers that think dinosaurs were put here by satan to "test our faith" or that the Garden of Eden actually existed.

The things listed above arent really the tip of the weird catholic iceberg. Like there's a whole thing about a dog saint. That the church is actually different churches who are all in communion with the Pope.

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