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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For DH, who grew up very Catholic  (several of his aunts are nuns) it was going to college and becoming sexually active that drove him from being a practicing Catholic. And then when the church abuse scandal broke and he saw the church's reaction, he totally broke from them and really started badmouthing them to anyone who will listen.

In fact, all his siblings left the Catholic church.

Then, after his brother died, DH's parents also stopped going.

We ultimately became Presbyterian.

I don't think there is anything parents can do. The structure and dogna of the Catholics is what drives people away.

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“The structure and [sic] dogna of the Catholics is what drives people away.”

Nonsense. People’s own choices “drive” them away just as surely as if they got into their own car, started the engine, and left the parking lot.  Blaming the Church for personal decisions to reject its beliefs, deny the reality of sin in one’s own life, seek the grace of repentance and be absolved is the fundamental hypocrisy that appears over and over in these pages. To reject “dogma,” one has to understand it, and people who have left the Church over legitimate dogmatic differences that they can intelligently articulate are few and far between. People stop practicing do so in large part because they enjoy their sins, don’t want to stop, feel guilty about it, and decide to blame somebody else instead of taking responsibility for their own actions.  The sex scandals, to which Presbyterians and other religious and secular organizations are hardly immune, is another false excuse.[/quote]

Well isn't that special.

I have a great relationship with God and Jesus. Do you think Jesus needs everyone to be Catholic? He accepts, welcomes and lifts up everyone regardless of where they are on their journey. People like you who gatekeep and are obsessed with the ridiculous secret handshakes of a man-made institution that was designed to control are why I and many others are "lapsed". Judge on, no one cares and you will do so alone.[/quote]

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