Ex- Catholics, why did you leave the Catholic Church?

because the priest was molesting altar boys.

I can't believe anyone voted this down.

Would you stay in a church if you were being molested?

i do no longer practice Roman Catholicism, and that i disagree with fantastically lots maximum of what the Church teaches, yet technically I nonetheless am Roman Catholic. no longer precisely advantageous a thank you to pass away it, different than being excommunicated or some thing. possibly the only thank you to truly go away it for particular is thru changing to a distinctive faith. yet so a techniques i've got not chanced on the different faith i'd evaluate changing to. :(

.........uh, ha ha, because:

1. all of the preists are freakin gay.

2. the nuns are ugly and or gay.

3. even their pet dogs are gay. (?!!)

4. this answer is : gay.

5. i'm not gay.

6. gay is bad.

7. duh.........2011 years, and jesus still has not come back? w.t.h.???

8. its rescue time, what is BIG J, waiting for ?!!!

9. uh.......all of the scandal about gay priests in the cat. church.

and thats not "good PR".

10. CATHOLICS can't use birth control devices. rubbers, etc.

11. the inside of the churches, are using "graven image", in the form of statues and other stuff.

and the old testament god, forbids that. right?

12. i could go on and on, but, i'm not catholic and never have been.

.............but, i can not critize any good that the cat. church has done.

like what? catholic charities? ok, that sounds like something good.

When i was in my 20's i picked up a bible and started to read it. We were not encouraged to read the bible when i was a catholic. I joined a Christian church and never went back to the catholic church. I never regretted it.

I did for a while because I didn't understand the church teachings. But once I started reading the works of the Early CHurch fathers and understanding apostolic succession I know deep down this is the one true church founded by Jesus Christ.

While in the seminary, as a member of a religious order, I learned to read Hebrew, Greek, Latin and a smattering of Aramaic and quickly realized that the Christian scriptures had been repeatedly altered, had borrowed heavily form other known myths of the time and that the supposed prophecies of "Jesus (aka. Yeshua bin Yusuf)" regarding the end time, his ministry, YHWH answering prayers of faith, etc., were questionable for being outright lies put into the Gospels long after his death.

I also began to notice that many of the older and younger friars were overly "loving" of one another in non-biblical ways.

I saw how our monthly newsletter to donors was being used to fleece little old men and women, with prayer cards of a blonde, blue eyed Jesus and outlandish stories of how we were in dire need.

The questions that arose from my pursuit of education and the other activities I witnessed lead my superiors to suggest that I take a long sabbatical and think thngs over. That was more than twenty years ago.

At my aunt's funeral mass, the priest announced that non-catholics could not participate in communion, which meant half my family couldn't participate. I began to realize how convoluted the whole concept of religion was at that moment, and drifted away.

Initially it was because whenever I attempted to talk theological problems with my parish priest, he always seemed eager to switch the conversation over to something about impure feelings towards girls.

At first I though this was just because the Roman Catholic Church was shallow and unserious.

It was years later that I realised the problem was much worse than this. (By then I was long gone anyway).

I got married to a girl who had been previously divorced. I was told I couldn't take communion until her and her ex-husband filled out like four pages of paperwork and turned it in to the church. WTF? Long story short, the Catholics seem to just make up their own rules.

Repetition. Year after year it was the same readings, the same gospels, the same homilies. Eventually I started questioning the whole belief system. Ultimately I gave up Catholicism for Lent.

Because God just seemed too unreal. Plus the bible is a whole load of fairy tales, people used over 2,000 years ago to explain how we all got here. Its totally ridculos.