If one chooses to leave a denomination, that's part of their journey. Sometimes that leads them to several different belief systems. Each one, as part of life's journey, makes a person who they are in the present.
When one slings mud, they themselves cannot help but be soiled. It's best to live in peace and enjoy the present.
G2G .."slinging " the scriptures is not slinging "mud"
It is always my hope that what I post brings people to examine the scriptures to see if what I post is true..
Many years ago a retreat gave me a small NT .. I had never owned or read one.. reading it brought me to ask why did Jesus come ??? That question brought me to my knees for the first time understanding the true Holiness of God.. and my sinfulness
Like you I loved my church, I loved the ritual , and the feeling of sacredness.. But over the next couple of years , as I read and studied ..more and more I saw that things I had been taught, things I had believed because they had been taught to me by the church , did not line up with the scripture ... Almost every Sunday I would be struck with the thought that I did not believe this or that anymore
So finally I left.. this was not without personal cost G2G ..My family was Catholic, my neighbors were Catholic, my "friends" were Catholic..and I had to leave many "ministries" I loved ... but I could no longer say Amen to the Roman church
So when I post here, it is with full understanding of how "loved" Rome can be... but I also know that we were never called to love a church, we are called to repent and believe in Christ..