(January 1, 2017 at 3:33 pm)Redoubtable Wrote: This is an extremely long story and applaud anyone who makes it all the way through. This is not a story about a journey to atheism for I am not an atheist, it is however a story about a journey out of the clutches of religious totalitarianism, something I never thought was possible to escape. I have to say that the current A&E series on those who left Scientology was a major influence on my increased comfort in opening up about this.
I am an ex-Catholic, also! For me, Catholicism was a complete waste of time. As a former Catholic, however, I am surprised that many "recovering Catholics" find/found the Church's teachings to be "repressive". Take artificial contraception, as an example; if the Church was wrong about that, then what, possibly, can it be right about? On the other hand, if Catholicism is nothing more than "smells & bells," who cares? I have much better things to do with my time and money!!