Then you're rescued and come back to civilization. You decide to find like-minded people to share your faith and fellowship with. You begin to search churches. The first one you go into is Catholic. THink about that. Everything you have read and believed on regarding God, salvation, EVERYTHING you have read and believed in God's Word is absent. There is nothing that you have learned in God's Word that is present in that church. What a blowing of one's mind that would be. From THIS to THAT in one opening of a door.
For me after i became born again (raised devout RC but did not personally repent and trust trust Christ for salvation till age 25) i appreciated Scriptural aspects in R. Catholicism, which was the only church i knew. But i also knew that Scripture was the assured word of God, and i saw other things which were part of the variable traditions of men, or subject to interpretation, including in Protestants circles.
After going faithfully to mass weekly (and other meetings for some time) and having served as a CCD teacher and lector, and serving God in other ways, i humbly prayed whether it would be the Lord’s will for me to go to a different church. I knew there were some things contrary to Scripture in the RCc, but also wanted fellowship with others who had experienced the new birth as i did with its resultant effects and wanted to serve God witnessing, which was rare in the RCC. They next day i met another believer who told me of an evangelical church, and which led to my decision to leave Rome, and which was a decision He clearly confirmed over the years. No bitterness toward Rome, but thank God for the shepherd who leads His sheep to find pasture.