If you’re complacent, you’re complicit

[AFTT47]

A few years back I tried to formally leave the church.  Because I was baptized as a baby, my name was added to their official rolls at a time when I had no say-so in the matter.

In 2011, the RCC made it impossible to formally leave the church.  You can still stop going, and also submit a form that is symbolic, but once once your parents chose to sign you up, the church will not ever officially let you go.

So the Catholic Church has a master list of "members" and will not take anyone off the list? There's something I didn't know. My mother had me baptized too so I guess I'm on it. What a joke. I've been an atheist since I was 12 and never bought into any of the crap they tried to brainwash me with in Catechism - even when I was as young as 5.

I empathize now with a female friend I had back in 1990 who had her picture taken in a bikini by a tourist on a beach without her consent. She described feeling icky about the thought of this guy pasting her picture on the wall of his bathroom and jerking off to it when he was on the toilet. That's pretty much what the church is doing here. Pretty pathetic.