Anonymous
Post 09/15/2013 19:53     Subject: Struggling to leave Catholicism
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Does anyone here have experience with leaving the Church when you didn't really want to because you were unsure you wanted to go through the annulment process following a divorce? I'm planning on remarrying and my future spouse is not Catholic. I've tried different churches and found an Episcopal church I really like, but it's just not quite the same to me spiritually. Should I just move on?

Or...you can just grow up and stop believing in fairytales. Catholicism - like most religions - is Santa Clause for adults.


Exactly. It is much more rational to believe that the universe mysteriously occurred out of nothing.



Not so rational to believe that God created the universe, then a zillion years later, created the Catholic church to save humankind by sacrificing his human son, born of a virgin.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2013 21:49     Subject: Struggling to leave Catholicism
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Does anyone here have experience with leaving the Church when you didn't really want to because you were unsure you wanted to go through the annulment process following a divorce? I'm planning on remarrying and my future spouse is not Catholic. I've tried different churches and found an Episcopal church I really like, but it's just not quite the same to me spiritually. Should I just move on?

Or...you can just grow up and stop believing in fairytales. Catholicism - like most religions - is Santa Clause for adults.


Exactly. It is much more rational to believe that the universe mysteriously occurred out of nothing. [/quote

Isn't it?
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2013 21:19     Subject: Struggling to leave Catholicism
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Does anyone here have experience with leaving the Church when you didn't really want to because you were unsure you wanted to go through the annulment process following a divorce? I'm planning on remarrying and my future spouse is not Catholic. I've tried different churches and found an Episcopal church I really like, but it's just not quite the same to me spiritually. Should I just move on?

Or...you can just grow up and stop believing in fairytales. Catholicism - like most religions - is Santa Clause for adults.


Exactly. It is much more rational to believe that the universe mysteriously occurred out of nothing.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2013 21:16     Subject: Struggling to leave Catholicism
Anonymous wrote:Why would you want to annul a marriage in which children were conceived?


Because annulment has nothing to do with, and has no effect on, the "legitimacy" of children. It just answers the question of whether a marriage was sacramental or not. An annulment in the Catholic Church does not mean that the marriage never happened (unlike in the case of civil annulment).
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2013 15:32     Subject: Struggling to leave Catholicism
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Does anyone here have experience with leaving the Church when you didn't really want to because you were unsure you wanted to go through the annulment process following a divorce? I'm planning on remarrying and my future spouse is not Catholic. I've tried different churches and found an Episcopal church I really like, but it's just not quite the same to me spiritually. Should I just move on?

Or...you can just grow up and stop believing in fairytales. Catholicism - like most religions - is Santa Clause for adults.


So helpful and convincing!
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2013 12:48     Subject: Re:Struggling to leave Catholicism
I'm not Catholic, but I'm curious why so many stay in the faith after all the scandals. But I would analyze what exactly you like about the Catholic church and then try to find that in another faith. If you can figure out exactly what draws you to one church, then you would be able to more easily recognize it in another church.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2013 00:12     Subject: Struggling to leave Catholicism
Anonymous wrote:Does anyone here have experience with leaving the Church when you didn't really want to because you were unsure you wanted to go through the annulment process following a divorce? I'm planning on remarrying and my future spouse is not Catholic. I've tried different churches and found an Episcopal church I really like, but it's just not quite the same to me spiritually. Should I just move on?

Or...you can just grow up and stop believing in fairytales. Catholicism - like most religions - is Santa Clause for adults.