“Also keep in mind I am not a Catholic (anymore) That explains the hate.”
Or the divorce. Often the reason.
“Or the divorce. Often the reason.”
You spread hate when you accuse us of being divorcees, een though the vast majority of Catholics don’t follow Catholic teaching anyway on contraception, divorce, or whatever. In fact, the majority of them favor gay marriage, as recent polls have shown. As for me, I’ve never even been married, and I am, in fact, a virgin, despite my age. Most Catholics lose it before they’re 18.
But luckily, I don’t even need to heed Cyril on all his teachings, by his own recommendation: Cyril of Jerusalem: “Even to me, who tell you these things, give not absolute credence, unless thou receive the proof of the things which I announce from the Divine Scriptures. “
Or the divorce. Often the reason.
Prove it. Prove it's often the reason.
Or the desire to remarry while still married.
Or a desire to use the Pill.
Many famous converts to Catholicism have given up secure jobs—like pastor of a Protestant church.
I think one could count on two fingers the converts to Catholicism who have devoted their time to writing against their former churches, while those who have left the Catholic Church and devoted their lives to bashing the Catholic Church in print number in the hundreds, or thousands.
There is an objectively verifiable asymmetry.
Why is it so common for those who have left the Catholic Church to exhibit all the symptoms of a guilty conscience, while those who join the Catholic Church do not?