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[Catholic_Lady]

You're making strawmen arguments and very much mistaken about what I believe and about what is "according to me". 
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You claim to be a "devout catholic". I happen to know what that means, as I was raised as one. You're trying to have your cake and eat it too, by on one hand - subscribing to a very rigid and transparent set of religious beliefs, and on the other - creating a pretense of individuality and freedom of thought.

You can deflect all you want, saying that I'm somehow misrepresenting your particular self-serving interpretation of the ideology I was once a part of, that doesn't change the fact, that my claim to "proper" understanding catholic dogma and views is just as valid as yours.

Being raised Catholic doesn't necessarily mean you know your catechisis. I was raised Catholic too, but there were a lot of things I did not know and did not understand until I started doing my own research and my own reading. A lot of it I learned when I was in college and joined a Catholic Student Association - not at home with my mom and dad, and not even in my Catholic grade school. For example, the Church does not say that gay people will go to Hell but you accused me of believing that anyway.