Is the Catholic position a "take it or leave it" kind?

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Aha! Is this a conscious choice? And if so, can you reply to the follow up question?

I live in a Catholic country. And well…we(should I say we? or they? since I am an atheist) pretty much do all kinds of s**t that I can assure you are forbidden by the church and when we get out on the streets we pretend we didn't do anything wrong.

We tell that to our friends, our family and ourselves, yet when we get back home we start doing them once again.

Then people go to confession tell half of the truth(the good half if you know what I mean) and when we pay penitence they say into their hearts that this is for all the bad that they told the priest along with the stuff they didn't told him.

I live in catholic country. I have never heard one say "we are perfect people" or I have never heard them say "we don't have evil people in our group". To say that they claim perfection is bullshit.

Now mind you, I do not hang around assholes. I like being the only one. Makes me feel special ed like.

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There are large (VERY large) variations in Catholic marriage annulments from country to country. IIRC, there are many times more in the US than in some other countries, and also, whether or not an annulment is even possible if children are involved varies as you go.

It's my impression the church does NOT advertise these regional disparities. Presumably the intensity of fealty to God's edicts, strictures, covenants, rules, commandments, and decrees is supposed to be the same everywhere, and calling attention to the discrepancies is frowned upon.


addenda: I should have said annulment rate, sorry,

yeah, leaders don't tell the truth ... you mean thats a new thing? Had I known, I wouldn't have slander-ed them so many years ago.