Yet you continually get it wrong when trying to argue against Catholic beliefs. Were you so poorly catechized? That is my more generous explanation. I think rather you choose to belief what your Anti Catholic sect has told you about your former beliefs. Their explanations suit you better so you go with that.
If you had such a poor understanding of Church teaching while you were Catholic I can see why you left. Why I too would have left if there was any truth to what you write about what the Church teaches. But there is not and evidence to that fact abounds. Why do you ignore it?
None of the churches I've attended in the last 30 years bothered with telling me about Catholicism, because they are not anti-Catholic, they are pro-Jesus. They have better things to do with their time. They don't gain adherents by tearing down Catholicism, they gain them by preaching the gospel.
Protestants are not sheeple who believe what their leadership decides for them to believe and dictates it to them. I realize that Catholics can't wrap their minds around thinking for themselves, having been so preconditioned to believe what is spoon fed to them. They tend to assume that everyone is like them. That's called projecting.
But if it makes you feel better to think that they do, by all means, go ahead, I can't stop you.
But I can tell you that you're misinformed about what Protestants really believe and practice.
If you had such a poor understanding of Church teaching while you were Catholic I can see why you left. Why I too would have left if there was any truth to what you write about what the Church teaches. But there is not and evidence to that fact abounds. Why do you ignore it?
The last resort argument of every Catholic on this board. I'll throw this one out to you.
If I was so poorly catechized, just whose fault is it? The priest who is supposed to be responsible for the flock he's entrusted with? Or the nuns who taught my catechism classes?
And why on earth would I want to stay in a church that can't even teach correctly to its members what it considers the truths it holds?
When I first accepted Christ as an adult and my eyes were finally opened to spiritual truths, one of the first things I did was go out and buy a Bible. Nobody told me I had to. I just knew that I needed to do that.
I read if voraciously. In the meantime, I knew I needed to start going back to church, so I did and I actually started by attending the parish I had been raised in. I didn't go to any Protestant churches for months. But the more I went and the more I read, the more and more discrepancies I saw between what was written in the Bible and what the Catholic church taught and practiced.
I finally went to a Evangelical/Protestant church and could not believe the difference. Not only did they teach and preach right out of the Bible, the sermons were interesting, and the people actually loved each other and cared about each other. Something that I never saw in the RCC I grew up in.
I figured I'd go to a church where the people LIVED what they believed instead of paying lip service.