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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These are extremely common feelings. I don't think you should feel hypocritical.  According to [url=http://www.gallup.com/poll/154799/americans-including-catholics-say-birth-control-morally.aspx]this poll[/url], 82 percent of American Catholics don't oppose contraceptives.  Pew Research Forum data (http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/09/19/majority-of-u-s-catholics-opinions-run-counter-to-church-on-contraception-homosexuality) finds that most American Catholics' opinions on contraception and homosexuality differ from that of the church.

There would be very few churches in operation if those people didn't go to church.  You are in good company. :)[/quote]

This is sort of the very definition of hypocrisy though isn't it?  Why shouldn't OP feel like a hypocrite, her Pope keeps millions of women throughout the world in a position of not being able to control their own destinies, yet she - and apparently you, and 82% of "American catholics" find that to be BS.  But hey, we'll still go and give money to this place.

Hypocrites.  [/quote]

These are reasons why I left the church.

I don't hate gays.  I recently just lost a very good gay pal to an illness, in fact.  former Catholic, too - who will go to hell for being true to himself, right?

I've taken a friend to have abortions.  So both of us will go to hell, I imagine.

I was tired of donating money to an institution that 1) preaches hate and 2) protects pedophiles.

But I'm the one going to hell.

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God forgives those who repent. I don't believe that those who have gay sex or abortions are going to hell because that's not supported in the scripture. Abortion is a sin, and any sex (straight or gay) outside of a marriage is sin, but we can all be forgiven for our sins, and we are all sinners. Preaching the sanctity of all human life and sex within a marriage is not hate, it's God's word.[/quote]

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