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

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Let's not forget that there used to be purgatory where you would be sent to suffer enough to cleanse those sins off that weren't already cleared by your local priest or were a little too bad to just pray away.

Oh, and limbo for those poor unbaptized babies who died because they weren't able to get to a priest in time.

Venial sins would send one to Purgatory, mortal sins to eternal Hell.  And, yes, a big about-face on the Limbo of the Infants here recently.

Repenting and being absolved by a priest keeps someone who has committed a mortal sin from going to hell.

What sort of Catholic were/are you?

Apparently at the Basilica, we were taught differently.