Sorry to post in an OLD thread that I missed the first time, I can't help myself responding to some of your points. I agree largely FYI.
(November 28, 2012 at 4:54 pm)squitten Wrote: Catholicism has never sat right with me. I looked at what I was told in Church and saw in the Bible and looked at what my education was teaching me in science and history and the two quite obviously did not match. Something had to be wrong. Studying history, which I love, was especially enlightening in terms of the development of the Church as an institution and I realised it had never been The Authority where faith was concerned.Yes, we protestants can't even agree upon when exactly the RCC as we know it began. What we do agree on is that matters of faith and of scripture are not determined by "councils".
Quote:I particularly found some of the moral stances of Catholicism increasingly hard to swallow. The rejection of gay relationships and abortion really sat badly with me and I found myself less and less able to brush it off as horrendous stories of child abuse, etc, were coming out. My husband is atheist too so I think his ideas, while not pushed on me in any way, were influential.If Christians did not disagree with society on important issues, then we wouldn't be needed in the first place.
Quote:I feel very angry towards religion right now. I feel like it's all been a huge lie and I was being fooled for a long time. I hope I'll be able to process that and move on from it in timeWell the RCC is a lie, and I get very angry at it for how it "represents" Xianity.
