Why do Catholics seem to feel obligated to accuse former Catholics of lying when they relate their own personal life experiences with Catholicism which don’t match up to other Catholic’s ideal of what Catholicism should be like?
No other Catholic lived my life. They didn’t experience, hear, or see what I experienced, heard, and saw. They CANNOT tell me that what I know by experience is a lie because they weren’t there to experience it themselves.
They may not like what they’re hearing but that’s just too bad. Life just rots sometimes.
Too many former Catholics who grew up in different parishes relate experiences and teaching that I received and the same errors show up time and again. Sure, they don’t match the *official* Catholic teaching but to have such consistency in the teaching of error means that there is more going on than most Catholics would care to admit. The chances of various unrelated Catholic relating near identical teachings and experiences is phenomenal if it were just by chance.
It’s too consistent to write off as chance. It’s a indication that there’s something wrong internally in the RCC which Catholics are not willing to recognize and admit.
I can also say that we who aren't and weren't Catholics can certainly agree with you, for the catholics we have ministered to say very similar things. Much is common in why they leave the Catholic church, but even moreso once they begin their walk with the Lord away from catholic teachings it's stunning how the Lord brings them up to par as they read His Word and experience Him how He wants to be known to them.
It's also exciting as He shows them His truth....they'll call to tell you their discoveries...much amazed and delighted to finally "see". It's a wonderful thing whenthey are "free" to know Him...see for themselves as He speaks to their hearts and minds thru the Scriptures.