and hell is not eternal fire and burning, but literally just the abyss, where you dont exist, youre dead

There doesn’t seem to be consensus on that within Catholicism, some Popes have said that it’s definitely a place of eternal punishment, others have said it’s more like you describe.

I guess it’s also up in the air what happens to unbaptized babies for Catholics. In that case the church seems to be going for a sorta quantum theory thing where the baby’s soul is hopefully saved, but officially probably not (maybe to discourage the infanticide conundrum). They pretty much let you pick and choose what you want it to be, since they probably don’t want to tell mothers who lost their baby during birth that it’s going to hell.

I was protestant for a while before discovering Catholicism and its teachings, then I chose.

Interesting. Considering that every other denomination and faith is indeed engineered by Satan, how did you go about confirming that Catholicism was the only true one? Did you examine Zoroastrianism, the proto-christianity, as well as non-abarahamic religions, before deciding? What made Catholicism the clear winner?

False faiths are engineered by Satan

Unfortunately, this aspect is what makes cults and religions such a good comparison to ML, as both have that auto-correcting feature to automatically make the adherent dismiss any information that conflicts with their beliefs as false. In the case of ML, it is claimed to be CIA propaganda or false history. For religions, it is taught that the literal most evil spirit is behind virtually all contrary information.

That mechanism is extremely valuable to a priesthood/leader to retain their flock/followers, as it makes it almost impossible for someone outside of that belief system to show them information that would reveal it to be false.

In a world where there theoretically was one true religion, that same mechanism would also act to keep people in a false religion, as they would have to assume that any other religion is in fact the devil tempting them, even if that person tempting them was from the objectively true religion.

islam was created because of an “angel” appearing. That probably wasnt an angel

How did you determine that?