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. 😅
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. 😅