Is there something about being Catholic that makes people of that particular Christian denomination more stupid gullible than the Protestants? There must be because we keep getting news items like this one:
Indians blinded looking for vision of Mary - UPI.com
KOTTAYAM, India, March 11 (UPI)—Reports in India of a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary in the sky have led about 50 people to blind themselves by staring at the sun.
The visions are said to appear over the former home of a hotel owner in the Kottayam area in southeast India, The Daily Telegraph reported. One hospital in the district reported 48 patients had been admitted with burned retinas since last week, the British newspaper reported.
Churches have warned their congregations that looking at the sun will cause permanent blindness and have told them the supposed miracle is not one.
Before moving out, the hotel owner reportedly had also claimed to have statues of the Virgin Mary that cried honey and bled oils and perfumes.
If you can’t believe a hotel owner’s claims of miraculous honey-crying statues well then who can you believe? I mean there’s no way in hell they’d make ridiculous claims like that for fame or money, right?
I don’t know, I always considered Catholics to be intolerant, bigoted and medievel but not as batshit insane as the Baptists. I may be biased as I used to be and most of my maternal family still are Catholics (and Indian Catholics obviously).
I even went to a Catholic school where they told us that Genesis is obviously metaphorical because it is contradicted by evolution. And we were told this in religious studies, not biology. So I wouldn’t really agree with what you said.
Sure there are a lot of incidences like this but on the whole I don’t think they’re that bad.