There seem to be 2 types of former catholics that I have met .?

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Spyridon said:
SDA and AOG are two of the most virulently anti-Catholic sects in the entire world…
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I know the SDA venerates Ellen White who prophetic musings are anti-catholic but were written in the 19th Century America, so it goes with the turf. I don’t think they are necessarily that anti-catholic today.

I never thought the Assemblies of God were very anti-catholic, my neighbor is a minister with them and I’m sure he’d slow down if he saw me crossing the street and give me a fair chance. I just don’t see the hate.
 
Augustinian said:
never thought the Assemblies of God were very anti-catholic,
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The AOG is not monolithic, it’s a very loose communion.

You could have an AOG community led by a pastor who is very friendly and charitable to Catholics in Miami, then go over to Ft Lauderdale and have a pastor and community who is staunchly and spitefully anti-Catholic.

The AOG being an offshoot of Pentecostalism, and heavily influenced by the fundamentalist movement, I can assure you 100% there are AOG folks who are foaming-at-the-mouth towards the Catholic Church.

Anti-Catholicism is built into Pentecostalism just like it’s built into Adventism. Just because some individual Adventists or Pentecostals are not raving anti-Catholics, doesn’t mean that Pentecostalism and Adventism are not, in general, anti-Catholic sects.
 
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“PetraG said:
4) Catholic wanting to marry a non-Catholic resented that it was necessary to verify that the non-Catholic’s previous marriage was not valid in the eyes of the Church. Left because the Church was viewed as “legalistic.”
5) Catholic suffered a unilateral divorce, wanted to marry again but was found to be in a valid marriage (because the spouse who left testified to the tribunal something along the lines of: “I knew marriage was for life and intended to be married for life when we got married, but I just didn’t feel like being married any more, so I left.”) The Catholic left in order to re-marry.
6) Catholic only went to Mass for as long as he was living at home and his parents forced him to go. He was taught the faith but even in childhood did not accept that it was true. He is not religious at all.
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The above three, marriage issues and poor catechesis are the most common reasons I’ve found.
 
The 2 types of former Catholics I know are: 1) the type who are very much secular and hate organized religion…perhaps serveral are “spiritual” and into a million new-agey things and 2) the type who have left for another fundamentalist sect of Christianity…very rarely I’ll find someone who left for another more mainstream protestant denomination or Orthodoxy

And yes, SDAs are very anti-catholic…anti ROMAN catholic…they are pretty clueless about the Christian East…half my family are in this cult-like church, and they’ve been there for generations.
 
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Augustinian:
never thought the Assemblies of God were very anti-catholic,
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The AOG is not monolithic, it’s a very loose communion.

You could have an AOG community led by a pastor who is very friendly and charitable to Catholics in Miami, then go over to Ft Lauderdale and have a pastor and community who is staunchly and spitefully anti-Catholic.

The AOG being an offshoot of Pentecostalism, and heavily influenced by the fundamentalist movement, I can assure you 100% there are AOG folks who are foaming-at-the-mouth towards the Catholic Church.

Anti-Catholicism is built into Pentecostalism just like it’s built into Adventism. Just because some individual Adventists or Pentecostals are not raving anti-Catholics, doesn’t mean that Pentecostalism and Adventism are not, in general, anti-Catholic sects.
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Jimmy Swaggert comes to mind…
 
Friends have quit owing to really poor homilies.

[Keep them in your prayers.]
 
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Augustinian said:
Rev. Swaggert got chucked out of the AOG 30 years ago.
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Google search “assemblies of God pastor Catholic church”

I’m confident it won’t be very hard to find pastors in the AOG preaching hardcore anti-Catholicism from the pulpit.
 
I’ve noticed that as well. Similar syntax, questions, typos. Could be triplets?
 
MonteRCMS said:
to really poor homilies
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If they ostensibly left the Church because of a poor homily, I can’t help but feel it wasn’t the homilist who drove them away, but rather their own lack of proper catechesis.

IMO, lack of proper faith formation and catechesis is the #1 or maybe #2 issue which drives Catholics away from the Church - the other top issue would be certain sins which the Church condemns and the person doesn’t want to give up, so they choose sin over Christ.

“My people die from lack of knowledge, saith the LORD” - lack of proper catechesis kills souls.

“The soul that sinneth, it shall die” - yielding to and being unwilling to give up certain sins, that also kills souls.
 
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I know a ton. Just about all of them were raised in the faith in strong Catholic families and were educated well in the Church’s teaching. All I can say is most just have a vey different world view than the one the Church presents. They aren’t lazy, or unwilling to make sacrifices, or any of that. In fact, most of them do a lot of community outreach and are good parents to the kids they have brought into the world.

I find it interesting that people here think those who left may have been seeking fellowship. The fellowship is what made it hard for a lot of the people I know to leave. There is some great fellowship in the Catholic churches around where I live and was raised.

True story…I actually asked the monsignor at my parents church if I could participate in some of the outreach activities and fellowship events even though I am agnostic and not a member of the Church. He told me I am alwyas welcome. Then he asked if there was a reason I just didn’t come back to the Church. I told him I would love to except for the whole “catholic thing”. We shared a good chuckle over that. He understood though. We discussed that I have a different world view and all that. I love that he said I was still welcome, though.
 
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I know some ex-catholics who thought the mass is too solemn and prefer the warm fuzzy clap and jump ‘fellowship’ of some churches out there. Those people have no depth of faith.
 
PetraG1h
Hmmmm…as a former Pentecostal I can only think of 1 type of “former” Catholic I have met…those were glad they were no longer Catholic

If you don’t mind me asking, why are you a former Pentecostal?

Firstly…I could never get a satisfactory answer as to why Jesus said to Peter…who was called Simon…“upon this rock (Peter) I will build my church” …secondly…why did Jesus say “unless you eat my body and drink my blood you have no life in you”…he did not stop some of his followers from leaving because they couldn’t accept what he said…in fact he reiterated what he had said…for a church that claimed a literal interpretation of scripture these were 2 key points they did in fact claim were not literal but only symbolic…eventually I couldn’t accept what they said…at the same time I felt that the Holy Spirit was leading me towards the truth of what the Catholic church taught…now of course there are some wonderful Holy Spirit filled people in the Pentecostal church…what great Catholics they would make if they found the fullness of the faith.
 
Somebody having a “world view” that doesn’t include the Real Presence of Jesus Christ and a lot of contact with Mary, His Mother when they were raised in strong Catholic families that taught these concepts is absolutely baffling to me. I have to ask God for patience because honestly i would rather go live in a hut in the woods and never see people than have to put up with that sort of mindset all day from people who think they’re actually doing a good thing by thinking that way.
 
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