I served as an altar boy back when the Mass was celebrated in Latin...can still recite “the sucipiot”. Three years later the church abandoned 2000 years of history and adopted English for the Mass. That, and because I couldn’t afford the indulgences at the going rate, I left the church and am now a card-carrying agnostic.
The sheep go astray, exactly as Christ tells us they will, and this makes you an agnostic?
>>>That, and because I couldn’t afford the indulgences at the going rate,...>>>
Indulgence? Payment? I’ve been a Catholic all my life and have NEVER had to pay for indulgences. Indulgences are gained through prayer, or prayer and fasting.
These two reasons cause you not to know if God exists or not? I could see if you left the church and either joined another denomination or just called yourself a Christian, but for acts of men to make you not sure if God exists, isn’t logical. Jesus Christ had to put up with invalid acts of pious men too and so did every believer you’ve read about in the Bible, and that didn’t make them doubt if God existed.
“...can still recite “the sucipiot”.
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No you can’t — it is the sucipiAt.
Perhaps you should go back to basics and recite the Confiteor.