[Serious] For former Christians only, why did you leave your faith?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

If you wanted to avoid spiritual consequence for bad deeds, you should have remained a Catholic. The whole confession/absolution thing is kind of a ‘Get Out Of Hell Free’ card.

Boru

That is not what Catholic theology teaches, not in the slightest.  In Protestant Christian theology, one has neo-Calvinism ("Onced Saved, Always Saved") versus Arminianism, which believes that an individual, once saved, can lose his/her salvation.

The Church makes a distinction between venial versus mortal sins, and the simple act of confessing one's sins does not necessarily remit those sins.

That is precisely what Catholic theology teaches. Contrition and confession (the latter being the necessary consequent of the former) are required for absolution - once the priest pronounces te absolvo, the sin, as well as the guilt arising from that sin, are expiated. Check your Aquinas.

Do not presume to lecture me on Catholic theology.

Boru