If you left Catholicism where did you go?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am Episcopalian and I have a couple of dozen Episcopal friends who are former Catholics.

They’re still Catholic

But not in good standing and will definitely go to hell if they don't return to the Church.

[Anonymous]

Cradle Catholic, confirmed and everything. Got interested in women's spirituality, now a witch. No joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cradle Catholic, confirmed and everything. Got interested in women's spirituality, now a witch. No joke.

I'm a lapsed Catholic and interested. Are you Wiccan? Can you share more information?

[Anonymous]

At first I went to a Methodist church, which was open and liberal and just my kinda church with a lot of Catholic elements, but then I just went nowhere.

[Anonymous]

Super weird take. It's like saying America is a bad place because of the GOP.

[Anonymous]

Yes, want to hear more about Wicca and other nature-based belief systems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, want to hear more about Wicca and other nature-based belief systems.

You can always look it up.

From what I know of Wicca - people simply know that's what they are. They feel it. It comes naturally to them. There's no dogma involved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, want to hear more about Wicca and other nature-based belief systems.

I read about it in a college women's studies class. I liked books written by Starhawk. I know people who identify as pagans - they are very creative people and are loyal to each other's creative projects.

I think I read that right now there are more pagans/wiccans than Presbytarians.

[Anonymous]

Eastern Orthodoxy.

[Anonymous]

Was raised Catholic and served as an altar boy but bailed on Catholicism in college. I consider myself an atheist but still believe there are useful teachings in religions. So I pick and choose, I discard the parts that I think are BS, like the concepts of heaven and hell, the afterlife, "born a sinner" et cetera. My wife was also Catholic but now prefers Episcopal and I sometimes go to service with her. I also occasionally go to a Buddhist temple.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am Episcopalian and I have a couple of dozen Episcopal friends who are former Catholics.

They’re still Catholic

But not in good standing and will definitely go to hell if they don't return to the Church.

Ha, not what I believe anymore. I'm now Episcopalian.

[Anonymous]

I'm surprised by so many people that have ended up at other churches.

For myself, and all the other recovering Catholics I know, it was like a snowball we couldn't stop.

Once we started to object to the little things in the Catholic church, it ultimately ended up in question Christianity as a whole.

But if I'm being brutally honest, I do miss the comfort of some of the traditions, especially around the holidays. But I think that's less to do with the church and more the associations of happiness from my childhood

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised by so many people that have ended up at other churches.

For myself, and all the other recovering Catholics I know, it was like a snowball we couldn't stop.

Once we started to object to the little things in the Catholic church, it ultimately ended up in question Christianity as a whole.

But if I'm being brutally honest, I do miss the comfort of some of the traditions, especially around the holidays. But I think that's less to do with the church and more the associations of happiness from my childhood

I dropped Catholicism and then religion all together, but still do the holidays for, as you say "the comfort of some of the traditions". Why not? It's not a sin when you don't believe in sin anymore.

[Anonymous]

I would like to hear more about Wicca also. I don't care for google. I would like to talk to people with actual experience. People. Not algorithms.

[Anonymous]

Baptized Catholic, but never went beyond that. Then in the Methodist church for several years, starting in college. Then years later back to Catholicism. This time, as an adult, not a child following my parents' wishes. It is comforting there, on my own terms. I never had to experience the crap in childhood. As an adult, not afraid to have real conversations with the priests. I call them by their first name, as they do me. None of that "father " stuff.