Yes, let's be honest. I left the Roman Catholic church at 16 years old, I wasn't looking for a divorce or an abortion nor did the "stinking rules" bother me. Instead, I was seeking to know the truth about the Christian faith - something that needled me from childhood was missing in the Catholicism I was born into. I prayed to God to reveal what was true. Through a series of events, I found myself in a Sunday school class of a Southern Baptist church my grandparents attended. The teacher put a Bible in my hands and asked me to read John 10:27-30. It said:
A light turned on in my soul and I knew I was hearing the truth I had asked God to show me. Jesus said He GIVES me eternal life and I will NEVER perish or be plucked from His hands. I knew then and there that I could not go back to the Catholicism I was raised in. Nobody told me to do that. I believe it was the Holy Spirit who led me to the truth. So, no, I left the Catholic church because I realized it did not teach the truth. I have never regretted that decision.
John is the book I suggest non-believers read if they have questions about Christianity.
I was also raised in the Roman Catholic Church too. (Yes, we called it the Roman Catholic Church) I went to a Roman Catholic grade school and a Roman Catholic high school. I don’t think I knew even one Catholic, who expected to go to Heaven. There may have been some. It’s just that I never personally knew any.
I remember telling one of the Roman Catholic nuns, that I hoped to go to Heaven, when I croaked. She thought I was crazier than a loon. I suppose maybe she thought she was heading to the fires of Hell.
I left the Roman Catholic Church, because I wanted to go to Heaven, and realized that, as a Catholic, I wasn’t going to go to Heaven. I don’t know why people remain in the “one true church,” when they have NO assurance of ANYTHING. For me, it wasn’t going to cut the mustard, so I left the Roman Catholic Church, never to return. I am comfortable with that. 👍😁