LOCK YOURSELF OUT OF THE CHURCH! BUILDING AND ALL!

By religion we mean that where the divine reaches out to you and asks for a loving worshipful response.  This will involve commandments and revelations so that you have enough awareness of who you worship.  Atheists hold that all religions are from man and are just organisations and traditions period.  As human nature has a bad side, a religion should be a hospital for that side and be shown effective.

Christianity and Islam and Mormonism agree with what we have written so what we are saying would seem to apply to them.

A RELIGION THAT HAS NO REAL SUPERNATURAL POWER TO HEAL HUMAN EVIL SHOULD BE DROPPED

Leave when you experience that the Church's remedies for sin and evil fail or at least cannot be shown to really work. Catholics are no better or worse than other religions. If the religion really were that special and set up by God to heal sinners by his supernatural grace and be the only reliable hospital for sinners you would expect to see exceptional and inexplicable degrees of holiness among Catholics. If every faith has 5 out of a hundred ministers who are child-molesters you would expect Catholicism to have a lower rate not the same rate. But sadly its rate is even worse. Catholicism is merely as human as every religion.

STAYING IS AN INSULT TO THOSE WHO SUFFER FOR THE RELIGION

Catholicism makes martyrs and heroes of those who die for it. A religion that calls on people to die for its doctrines is a murderer actually and potentially if it is a manmade religion. A religion that regards evil revelations from God as sacred and true - or worse which justifies them or ignores them - is sharing in the evil. Nobody should enter such a religion. That would be bad but to put a child in it would be heinous. While it is wrong to call all members of any religion, even a murderous one, murderers for not all toe the line or have enough faith to obey, it is right to tell them to leave the religion for they are too good to tarnish themselves by being members. No religion or culture is worth a single life.

That is a reason for leaving. It is the only way to respect the martyrs.

WHEN YOU ARE GONE ANYWAY YOU JUST NEED TO MAKE IT OFFICIAL

If you are not a Catholic in your heart it is not right to act as if you are for that deceives others and insults those who want you to be a real Catholic and not a pretender.
 
Until you officially leave the Roman Catholic Church you have no right to use contraception, contradict the Church in its solemn teaching or look for a divorce. You committed yourself to obey the Church and marry it when you accepted Holy Communion and confirmation. Confirmation involves vowing yourself to the service of the Church.

There is such a thing as being a mere number in an organisation but that only happens if you don't know enough about it to make an informed decision to be in it and if you were enrolled without your consent. There is more to being a number if you want to be a member of the organisation. But being numbered with a religion automatically and objectively implies support for it. That overrides any subjective lack of support or opposition you are responsible for. If you oppose something and are a member then you are still objectively a supporter. It is hypocritical of you to cherry-pick its doctrines. That is not an option. Go.

JESUS THE POOR ROLE MODEL IS USED TO SUPPORT RELIGIOUS HYPOCRISY

Leave Christianity if and when you realise that Jesus is not a suitable role-model. Want examples? Consider his approval for the barbaric Old Testament, his having done nothing for animal rights, his teaching that unrepentant sinners will be punished forever by God, his obsession with doctrine as if it really matters above all, his lying about knowing the future. His prediction of his resurrection was written down after the alleged event and his prophecies of the future are worse than what a fortune teller would invent. He as good as admitted to being a con.

His pretending that the Old Testament predicted him clearly when interpretation is just anybody's guess. His claim that he would prove his mission was from God by rising bodily from the dead! [A promise that failed because his tomb was open when there was nobody about so somebody could have stolen the body from it and even the New Testament settles for saying only that it was not found in the tomb].

Some gay Catholics go to communion while living in "sin". It is bizarre how people could be so attracted to a Jesus who condemns their morals. Even if a gay person thinks it is not a sin communion is only for those who agree to try to believe the teaching even if they do not.  It is seen as a medicine for faith problems not a reward for faith. 

Jesus' Bible was the Old Testament which never mentioned loving enemies but claims that God wants certain sinners murdered. If Mein Kampf was the Bible, you would not regard any member of the religion based on this book as a son of God. And so why do you regard Jesus as the son for being no better?

Reasons for staying?

SENTIMENTAL ATTACHMENT IS NO REASON FOR STAYING

What if you have an emotional attachment? What then? Deal with that perhaps by telling yourself the truth - it is the religion that has left you. It made it impossible for you to compromise. Or why can't you both leave each other? If a religion proves dangerous or false and you are bigger and better than it then it is the one that let you down and it is leaving you. It leaves you for it abandons you and leaves you to do the right thing.
 
Desires (or wants) and needs are not the same thing. You can need something without desiring it. And you can desire something without needing it. Rights are based on needs not desires. You need shelter and food and love so you have a right to these things. Simplicity is a right. Anything extra is an accessory. If anybody wants you to believe in a complicated faith or if things are not kept as simple as possible then your rights are being contravened. Leave complicated religions. In fact, it would be better to realise that even the simplest religion is a complication!

EXCUSE ALERT: "IT WILL CHANGE FROM WITHIN IF I STAY TO HELP IT PROGRESS"

You have a great opinion of yourself and your wisdom! Chances are you are not doing much to aid this progress.

Those who know the religion is not the supernaturally revealed or credible faith community that it thinks it is, and who truly respect the religion, will leave it instead of staying inside and pretending to be a help rather than a hindrance.

They are a hindrance to what they think is the real truth. You leave one man-made religion for a wiser one. Or one that might actually be from a God.  Or you drop religion.  PERIOD.

GOD IS NOT A HARMLESS PRIVATE BELIEF AND CANNOT BE

Some incredibly say they see faith as a private matter so leaving is pointless for it is nobody else's business. The sanity of anybody who really thinks that needs to be assessed.

Necessary evil is unavoidable. But belief in God gives you more things to consider to be necessary evils than you would have if you were pagan or atheist. For example, obeying anybody is a necessary evil and if you have to obey God that is a necessary evil. If there is no God then it is not a necessary evil and just an evil. Atheists and pagans believe that if there are gods they have the right to differ from them so there is no strict need for obedience. If you are in a religion that you have to do necessary evil for, that evil is actually unnecessary if you don't need to be in that religion or if that religion is just human and not really directed and created by God.

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