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I regret joining the Catholic Church
November 26, 2017 at 6:35 am
Not that I didn't expect this to happen. I was raised orthodox and dad wanted to join the catholic faith too. I joined in just to make him feel happy, he didn't force me to do that. We went every last Sunday to church for some time now, he insists with it. He also bought me a book for the liturgy and insists that I read it in church. He said that he wants me to keep this book as a memory of him, but I can't wait to get rid of it. Today, before the liturgy he told me that God is real, there must be a creator, He has a plan for everyone, if something bad happens it's in His plan, atheists are wrong, humans cannot comprehend Him and blah blah blah. At the very least dad doesn't believe in Hell.
Funny thing, both of my parents told me that I should marry a christian because he would've been raised like me, yet my christian parents have very different beliefs and don't get along very well. They have very different personalities and ways of thinking, even their religious beliefs have differences. Mom practices religion out of comfort, dad seems to be convinced that there is a God. They almost have different religions each. Or maybe they both believe something unintelligible and have different ways to express it.
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RE: I regret joining the Catholic Church
November 26, 2017 at 6:58 am
My experience was different. At 11 years old I argued with the priests and nuns. At 13 I rejected the Catholics. I never went to confession or became confirmed. It was the early 1970's so youthful rebellion was fashionable. I fought with my parents over this decision. Soon, they left the Roman Church and became Pentecostal. I did not follow along.
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RE: I regret joining the Catholic Church
November 26, 2017 at 7:27 am
Pope Francis doesn't seem to believe in punishment in hell either (he said the wicked are annihilated). But as I understand it, eternal punishment in hell is a de fide dogma and denying it makes one a heretic.
I am also an ex Catholic (and ex traditionalist Catholic).
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RE: I regret joining the Catholic Church
November 26, 2017 at 7:32 am
(November 26, 2017 at 7:27 am)KiwiNFLFan Wrote: Pope Francis doesn't seem to believe in punishment in hell either (he said the wicked are annihilated). But as I understand it, eternal punishment in hell is a de fide dogma and denying it makes one a heretic.
I am also an ex Catholic (and ex traditionalist Catholic).
I'm not an ex Catholic, I was atheist before I joined the catholic church. I don't believe in it, I just pretend that I do.
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RE: I regret joining the Catholic Church
November 26, 2017 at 7:36 am
Sometimes I think that religion is the only coping mechanism that Romanians have.
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RE: I regret joining the Catholic Church
November 26, 2017 at 7:38 am
(November 26, 2017 at 7:36 am)notimportant1234 Wrote: Sometimes I think that religion is the only coping mechanism that Romanians have.
For most of them yes.
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RE: I regret joining the Catholic Church
November 26, 2017 at 7:39 am
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I went to a Catholic school and was baptized. However at that time I read the Evangelical Bible and not the Catholic Bible. I later went to a Pentecostal Church and for a time some others. I had gone to the Catholic school to avoid being further bullied. The boys there were much worse. I think they bullied kids for not having money. The girls were pretty much angels though. I'm not saying that means Catholics are bad. But I do think what they believe isn't factual.
