Damned Catholics

[brewer]

I really do love the Catholic Church......however, there are a few things I take issue with, that I am unable to look passed.

1) "Jesus Is God" - This one is really bad, for me. I don't believe Jesus is God, I believe Jesus is a messenger of God.

2) "The Holy Trinity consists of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit" - This doesn't seem correct to me. I think the Trinity should be more like, God/Angels/Human Messengers. God is there, of course, and then there are angels, who serve as messengers, but only in spiritual form, not in human form, and then there are human messengers, such as Jesus.

3) "Mary was a virgin throughout her life" - This one just seems blatantly false. I do not believe in the Immaculate Conception, I believe Joseph impregnated Mary, and then she bore Jesus, and that Mary and Joseph definitely had sex a number of times, I mean, they were married, after all. Which also means that Mary was not sinless throughout her life, as I would consider sexual intercourse a sin, even if you're married to the other person.

4) "Believing you can be like Jesus, is a form of delusion" - This is something I was taught in Sunday School, that never felt quite right. We can't be like Jesus? We can't be messengers of God? Then why the emphasis on evangelization? Aren't we supposed to spread the word? This one never made sense to me.