Im no longer going to be a Catholic

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dolphinlove said:
Ha ha fooled you…😛
But seriously, what i want to know is, why do people leave the Catholic religion.
Please explain your reasons why you left…
Thanks
Dolphy
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The Catholic Church lacks the fullness of faith.
 
When I was 18 years old (a very long time ago), the catholic church offered nothing but a half hour mass. When I went west, I met mormons and they offered so much more. They offered a community.
 
Jsmith17 said:
Back when my parents wanted to be married, a priest told them they couldn’t due to the fact that it was an interracial marraige and that was against the laws of nature;
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Your mom should have made a formal complaint to the archdiocese for comments like that. Priest or no priest, he is not excusable for being a racist.

My wife and myself both come from different racial backgrounds; she’s a Chinese-born Methodist and myself a baptized North Indian-Catholic. We had a civil marriage due to lots of complications and disagreements from both sides of our family.

When i attended Church services, i was told by the priest that i could not partake in Communion and i complied. I waited a whole year until my wife was received into the Catholic Church (RCIA).

We are a happy, Catholic family with a 2 year old son who will be baptized soon in September. 🙂
 
Hisalone said:
The Catholic Church lacks the fullness of faith.
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That’s not what my (former Methodist) wife thinks. At first, she was very uneasy about what Catholics believed in. Until we got married and she started attending Mass with me. She is now a Psalmist in our parish. 😉
 
why_me said:
When I was 18 years old (a very long time ago), the catholic church offered nothing but a half hour mass. When I went west, I met mormons and they offered so much more. They offered a community.
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Yes, most cafeteria-Catholics (when they do attend Mass), are at times lost in their own world. Being a Catholic is being part of a Community. A worldwide Community that no other church can compare.
 
dolphinlove said:
Ha ha fooled you…😛
But seriously, what i want to know is, why do people leave the Catholic religion.
Please explain your reasons why you left…
Thanks
Dolphy
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Good grief, Dolphy! You scared me there for a minute!😃

Vickie
 
cathopologist said:
That’s not what my (former Methodist) wife thinks. At first, she was very uneasy about what Catholics believed in. Until we got married and she started attending Mass with me. She is now a Psalmist in our parish. 😉
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The 1st century church was “full gospel” the present day Catholic Church is not. There are many, many other distinctions that prove Catholicism lacks the fullness of faith.
 
And what may I ask, is wrong with a protestant wedding?

…they make you pay for expensive booze…would it kill them to have a keg???
 
jmcrae said:
And I suppose the fact that he upheld the Church’s teaching on being equally yoked in marriage (which we also find in the Bible) is considered by them to be evidence that he was a child abuser?
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I believe that being “equally yoked” in marriage is much more concerned with being certain that your intended is of the same faith. The concern in the old testament wasn’t the racial intermixing but the idolatry and polytheism that came with marrying outside of the Jewish community.

But I agree with your statement that this has nothing to do with the priest’s downfall in child abuse.
 
Hisalone said:
The 1st century church was “full gospel” the present day Catholic Church is not. There are many, many other distinctions that prove Catholicism lacks the fullness of faith.
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I suppose what you mean by “full gospel” is having the full compliment of 27 N.T. books in their possession?

If not, was it the living Apostles that made it “full gospel?” Then, please tell me, what happens between the death of the last Apostle in A.D. 100 and the formal canonization of the current 27 N.T. books in the late 4th century? You didn’t think the early church of the first century had all those 27 books, did you? If you did, I’m sure you learned it in Protestant Revisionist History class 101. LOL.

If, by full gospel, you mean living your life based on the complete Bible, then how could the 1st century church be Protestant in nature if they did not posses all 27 books of the New Testament at that time? As a matter of fact, the early church of the first century thought that, in addition to the written Gospels, the Letter of Clement to the Corinthians was canonical. We know better today, now don’t we?

The only thing I see lacking is your understanding of history.
 
I was raised a Catholic. It’s a bit hazy but sometime around the age of 5 or 6 I realized that Santa Claus didn’t really exist. It took five or six more years but at some point I finally understood that while Santa was make believe other people still thought that other invisible sky beings were real. Rather scary.
 
Hesychios said:
I am impressed with your story.

Considering that, I wonder if you ever saw the movie “One Man’s Hero” starring Tom Berenger? It is very Catholic themed and I think you might appreciate it. It was not a very popular movie but it addresses some of your thoughts in war.

See if you can find it.
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No… I hadn’t but, I may look for it. Biggest thing is that I have had and still have a tendency to avoid “triggers”…if you know what I mean…🙂 Thanks!😃
 
Hisalone said:
The 1st century church was “full gospel” the present day Catholic Church is not. There are many, many other distinctions that prove Catholicism lacks the fullness of faith.
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I think we would all love to have you actually provide specific items and proofs…that have not been previously posted anywhere in these forums and debunked as well.

Remember…we are speaking of specifics and facts alone support by documentation, not your opinion. 😃
 
**I always knew, from childhood, that there was something
too complex about Catholicism. Later, I came to the same
conclusion about Christianity itself, as I followed the debates.

Like the lions, surrounding Daniel, I found Christianity far too
complex to be the true faith.**

Truth is seldom simple, and is usually quite complex.
 
maize said:
isnt the unequally yoked part about a christian and a non-christian? not between denominations?
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Catholics are supposed to marry Catholics, so that they can raise their children in the Catholic faith. The Baptist faith has very little in common with the Catholic faith.
I think the mention of the child abuse was that even though the priest said that a protestant and a catholic being married was against god laws that apparently the priest own practice of child abuse was not against gods law
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Moses was a murderer, yet God chose him to give the Ten Commandments to the people of Israel. Should they have said, “You are a murderer; therefore, we don’t have to listen to you”? 🤷

A priest can be a sinner, and he might even be the worst of sinners, but he is still a priest - he is still the one through whom God’s voice comes to us, to instruct us in God’s ways.
 
jmcrae said:
Catholics are supposed to marry Catholics, so that they can raise their children in the Catholic faith. The Baptist faith has very little in common with the Catholic faith.

Moses was a murderer, yet God chose him to give the Ten Commandments to the people of Israel. Should they have said, “You are a murderer; therefore, we don’t have to listen to you”? 🤷

A priest can be a sinner, and he might even be the worst of sinners, but he is still a priest - he is still the one through whom God’s voice comes to us, to instruct us in God’s ways.
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So the man who administers communion to you can have done, or rather, do anything he wants but it’s okay because God chose him?

And don’t forget, Moses spent 40 years in the desert after the murder…Plenty of time to grow and recover from his sin. And he didn’t murder for the sake of just doing it. He did it out of disgust for what was being done to his people.
 
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