Will it?
Yes, they will. I recommend turning off the lights on Sundays and pretending that no one’s home, just in case the priest police show up at your door.
For all that the Jesuits used to call themselves “The Army of God”, no. The Pope won’t be sending somebody to your door to find out why you missed Mass.
That won’t be enough. Did you know that nearly everybody who has left the church has died? You probably need to create something like witness protection for yourself. New town, new identity, etc.
Go on…
This is hilarious.
Anyway, I am one of those "once a Catholic"s. I just stopped going to church, confession and eating the body and blood of Christ. It’s been a long time - multiple decades, no one ever came looking for me, mailed me anything or called me. Several years ago I went back to my old church for a funeral for a childhood friend. The smells of incense brought back a lot of memories but I didn’t get held down by a pack of nuns and re-Catholicked or anything. They never missed me.
Now, those Scientologists, sheesh! I once bought a sci-fi L. Ron Hubbard book through mail order and those guys won’t leave me alone. They found me when I moved and left no forwarding address, they found my email that I didn’t even have when I bought the book. I have never responded to them or bought into any of the Dianetics crap but I still get mail from them and sometimes they get a new email that I haven’t blocked yet. The Catholics are just not that dedicated to pestering people.
I have known several former Catholics thru different churches.
So what religions do I have to worry about than?
Just the Catholic Church. You’d be fine if you were just a lapsed Episcopalian.
Amway.
HEY! Now wait just a ding dang minute here! :eek:
:mad:
Exactly what I was going to post. I made that same point in another thread, explaining why even though I rated Catholicism and Scientology as equally nonsensical, I thought the Church of Scientology is a far more ugly, dangerous and evil institution that the Church of Rome.
I didn’t know McCarthy was still around: there’s several questions like that in current customs forms.
No “used to”, Societatis Iesus is Jesus’ Battallion/Company/Army. But they’re not supposed to bang on people’s heads with the crucifixes, just nitpick at them.
Tell them that the Pope is that Antichrist and yell “GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN!!!”
There must be 50 ways to leave the Church.
You just slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don’t need to be Coy, Roy
Just get yourself free
Hop on the bus, Gus
You don’t need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
And get yourself free
I just wanted to say thank you, that was nicely done.
Become a Pastafarian.
The Catholic Church pretty much never gives up. My gf’s ex-husband attended a local Catholic Church a few times. He’s been gone for a decade. I pretty much moved in right after he left. I’ve tossed an envelope from the church each month (that’s 120 envelopes) since moving in. (They are envelopes filled with ?donation envelopes or something)
So, the dude has missed over 500 consecutive Sundays and they haven’t taken the hint.
You mean Jack Chick would lie to us?
You only get out of the Catholic Church…
…what you put in to the Catholic Church.