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Originally Posted by shyspider
Hello. This isn't meant to be Catholic bashing, and I actually have two separate but related questions. I was wondering if anyone was ever a devoted Catholic and then later left that church for any reason? If so, what was your reason? How did it make you feel inside yourself to leave...were you scared you were going to end up in hell?
And similar to that, has anyone ever adopted a different view of Christianity than the one you previously had? I don't mean you stopped believing in Jesus, but something about your spiritual understanding changed? Can you describe your experience.
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I am just about there myself. I'm not seeing the point in all of the empty rituals of the Catholic church...I can't believe that people are judged and lose their salvation for not folliwng the rituals lockstep. Am I really to believe that I'm going straight to hell because I missed a Mass last week? The church's handling of the pervert priests doesn't help matters either.
I think I'm going to become an independent Christian for a while. After years of thought and prayer, I realize I believe in the biblical view of salvation....trusting Jesus as my savior. But I'm just not a big fan of organized religion at this point. I've been to all different sorts of churches in my lifetime, and was usually turned off for one reason or another. One of these days, I may check out a non-denominational church in my area.