Ask an ex-Catholic

[Aroura]

No, everyone I know also dropped their belief in the Catholic nonsense (except one childhood friend who also thinks her childs food allergy autism was caused by a vaccine...and she spent 2 years in a psychiatric ward, really, so she's not a great one to go by), even my mother dropped it, though she still believes in God, just not the catholic version anymore.

I understood Catholic theology well enough to know it makes no sense of the real world, is obviously inspired by man and not a "god", whatever that even is, and yes, I've read more about religion since my deconversion than before it, including Catholic "dogma".

I'm very sorry you have been so thoroughly brainwashed, but my mind is open and I know I could be wrong, so I'm always looking for more and better information about the world around me.  I just learned a long time ago that ANY religion wasn't the place to find it.  still, I study other religions. I'm currently researching eastern religions with my daughter to help her understand all the differing belief systems in the world.

So stuff your "closed minded" crap you mentioned in another thread.

Best of luck to you in life, though.

Could you give an example of how Catholic theology does not make sense of the real world?

And as you are looking for "better information about the world" around you, are you also finding information about the next world...the one you will face after you die? 

What has your search turned up so far?

1) Every single aspect of it fails to explain the world, and it also give people false tools for dealing with the real world.  In sort, all of it. 

2) Which on is that?  The one where I'm reincarnated as a worm?  Or perhaps the one where I go to the great hunting ground in the sky?  Yes, I know all the afterlife myths from around the world.  Yours is just as silly as any other.

3) Everything (real) that we've learned points to no afterlife, so why would I worry about it?  I worry about THIS life, and making it better for my child, myself, and the world around me by being as positive an influence as I can.

Could you give an example of how Catholic Theology DOES make sense of the real world?

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Did you ever consider joining a different church or religion, or did God just become a total non-starter?

Total non-starter. I went from Catholic, to deist, to atheist.  I looked into some eastern philosophies after admitting to myself I was an atheist, and I still like some of the philosophical bits of things like Taoism and Buddhism, but I would never join them as religions.

I basically reject woo on all levels. 

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As an adult, I look back and think how childish so much of that belief system really is.  No different than my 8 year old daughters deep desire to believe that Hogwarts is real, and she'll get to train dragons some day. 
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Which parts of Catholicism seem most ridiculous to you now?

Oh my goodness, where to start!!!???

The Pope.  The Pope is the most ridiculous to me, even more so than transubstantiation and the holy trinity (although both of those rank right up there), IMHO.  It's so clearly a position created by man to control the populace, I cannot fathom why people take anything that asshole (even the current less asshole-ish one) says seriously. He has no more moral authority than any other human.  It reminds me of L.Ron Hubbard.  Guy admits religion is a scam to make money, people still follow said guy.  It's utterly baffling to me.