Lmfao imagine being in this cult
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Growing up in a Catholic home and school, the brainwashing is fairly mentally abusive. You're going to hell unless you partake in all of these kinds of ritualistic things. Don't confess your sins to a pedophile... going straight to hell. Have premarital sex... straight to hell. Miss a holy day or Sunday mass... straight to hell. Imagine growing up believing all this from a very young, impressionable age. It wasn't until my 20s that it started to fade with more emotional and intellectual intelligence. And being a victim of a pedophile priest, being sent back time after time, you wind up up a pretty unstable person even so. It's been a lifetime of guilt, shame, drug abuse and sitting in front of counselors who really don't know how to help. In the 70s when all this was going on, you didn't accuse the church, the church was sacred. It's a pretty good scam they have going on.
I'm sorry to hear what you went through - that's horrific! I hope that you haven't given up on God. I was baptized as a baby, but my mom was excommunicated for using birth control - by the same church that owned Serono, a pharmaceutical company that manufactured contraceptive pills. I think the building of the pope's audience "serpent" Hall should have been a massive red flag to everyone!
I think they would call me a grocery store Catholic. I practice the good parts, the idiotic stuff, not so much. I asked the teacher one time "if God is the only person that forgive sins, why do I confess through a man" I belive confession has been skwed to actually telling a man your individual sins. After a while I went in and said, I've sinned, that's it. That's all they needed to know. I would say I'm a Christian, but not so much a Catholic. I remember the cognitive dissonance taking place in my head when they would sell raffle tickets in the foyer of my church. But Jesus overturned the tables when he saw gambling. Oh, it raises money for the Church, therefore it doesn't count. 😅
The older I get the more I see that almost all of these religious institutions are for mere control, ritualistic abuse, and theft of souls.
We’re not called recovering Catholics for nothin’…
I grew up Catholic, attended Catholic elementary school, Mass every Sunday, confession on Saturday, all the things that were sins for which I repented daily. Then my parents got divorced, and were of course excommunicated, and on their way to hell. I noped out of all of it as a young teenager. My faith today is strong, as is my love for our Savior. When I was eight a Bishop visited our school, and we all lined up to kiss his ring. My only thought standing on that long line, was that this was not a holy thing.
I know the feeling, wasn't a priest, but... I didn't grow up in the Catholic church, I lived close to a huge one. They are very effective hunters and prey on the most vulnerable. Rest well in the fires of Hell, Ken LeClair...