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In my opinion. We’re all in this together, and I personally think God is there for all of us.

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The problem with this type of thinking is that what we think has no effect on The Church. Prior to 325AD there were many creeds and confessions of faiths in the many churches that followed Christ. The concept of a universal church was not a reality before that. People who worshiped Christ were all called Christians, but, after 325 there was a definition of what a Christian was. For the next 50 years there was turmoil over this canonized statement of what a Christian was, either you were or you weren’t. As time went on there were less and less people who followed any Christianity other than the now Universal(Catholic) faith. After 375AD those who claimed to be Christian but would not recite the creed were heretics, often forfeiting their lives for their individual beliefs.

Until the reformation there was basically one church. We call it the reformation but it was really a rebellion of sorts. The protestants however kept the creed as a statement of belief and many still recite it in their worship.

I personally think that if the pope had ended the sale of indulgences and even met with Luther there would have been no reformation but we will certainly never know if that could be true or not.

My point in all this is, it really doesn’t make any difference as an individual what you think as long as it conforms to the creed. Once you profess faith in Jesus Christ you may think you have arrived, but once you are in The Church perhaps you have a difficult time reconciling the actions of The Church or perhaps even pieces of The Creed. None of those things makes you a bad person, but, it could make you a non-Catholic.