***You, and people like you, are why millions have walked away from Catholicism. But keep it up - insult, threaten, libel and suppress ever harder. ***
The only ex Catholics that I have ever met are the theologically lazy. The Protestants that have embraced the Faith (our current Pastor is one) have done so because of the theology. This gentleman was a Baptist preacher, graduate of a Baptist seminary. He wound up in the Army side by side with the Catholic religious education officer. The Catholic was reassigned and as a result, he took over the Catholic religious education as well as the Protestant.
It took less than four years for him to convert himself.
***After all, Catholics need to know their place, and raw power to forbid thought on pain of hell has worked for centuries. So why change a good thing?***
Our only place is our recognition as a Creature of God Almighty; and our only duty is to worship Him with all of our hearts and minds and strength, and to love our neighbour as ourselves. That is the good thing that Christ told us to do.
A more arrogant theological statement I have never heard. I stand in awe of your personal rightiousness - for you do not speak for the Church, nor anyone else but yourself.