I quit Catholicism to save my mental health

Nneka M. Okona (Revelist via Huff Post, May 31, 2016); Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly
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How Quitting Catholicism Helped Me Get the Mental Health Treatment I Needed

Thank God I got out of God's House.

I learned at a young age that obedience to God is the key to a great life.

My family raised me as a non-denominational Christian, though we attended an A.M.E. church and later converted to Catholicism.

My earliest memories are littered with reading, musing about life in a notebook hidden underneath my mattress, and church, lots of church.
 

I was always in church, not just Sunday services. Fellowship afterward eating fried birds, cornbread, collards, an assortment of cakes and pies was a must.

Sunday school, Wednesday evening Bible study, Saturday afternoon activities. Church, school, and home were the three places my presence was mandated.
 

These were the supposed keys to leading a good life, a life in which I was happy, not just spiritually, but mentally, emotionally, and psychologically, too.

Your idols died for you...so feel guilty.

I fell in line without questioning anything because I wanted the happiness this life promised.

Church was at the hands of my mother, whose devout faith stems from her southern Baptist upbringing in Huntsville, Alabama. Even though she’s a spiritual mother, she is not nurturing or well-equipped to parent the emotionally sensitive person I am.
 

When I came to her for advice, her answer always involved a variation of "Everything happens for a reason" and "It’s time to pray." She also told me to make sure I diligently read my Bible, attended, church regularly, and faithfully tithed my 10% [of my money to the church]....

I stopped going to church

I stopped attending church around the fall of 2012. I lived without the restraint of religiosity choking me for two years, which coincided with an international move to Madrid, Spain, to teach English. It felt like freedom, but it also felt incredibly empty. I prayed very little those two years although I never stopped believing in God.....
 
Meditation

Christine Turlington (Vanity Fair)

I started meditating every morning and experimenting with other meditative states and practices.

From there, I researched crystals, as per the recommendation of a friend who had a large collection and bought my first ones -- citrine, green quartz, black obsidian. I felt really good. Great even for the first time in a long time. But eventually this blissful state wore off.

Depression

Depression first kills the will to resist it.

I went into a defensive fit of rage when my father suggested I was depressed. I couldn’t be depressed. I prayed. I meditated. I repeated my positive affirmations.

I even read certain passages of Marianne Williamson’s A Return to Love and Louise Hay’s You Can Heal Your Life in tandem almost every day. I was doing the hard inner-work every single day. So how could I be depressed?

I began to blame myself. My outer-world was reflecting my inner-world, so I had the power to shift it. Yes. This was on me. More

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Desecrating grave of new genocidal "Saint" Serra

Catholicism.org, 9-28-15; NY Times; Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly

Worship of Santa Muerte (Saint Death) is popular Catholic practice (ladayofthedead.com).

We're here to sodomize, molest children, kowtow men, take women, oh and also to give you these nice free Bibles to study in the name of the Holy Roman Empire (nocaptionneeded.com).

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New lobbyist Joe Boe'ner: I invited my pope.

We would like to give thanks for this report to our friends at Catholicism.org, who describe their online journal as "An online journal edited by the slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Saint Benedict Center, New Hampshire." "Slaves"? Now that's dedication -- to worldwide domination by the pro-military, pro-FOX News Holy Roman Empire's Catholic (universal) Church after centuries of conquest, destruction, and a list of atrocities and crimes against humanity too long to document here.

Protest: "Vandals desecrate Carmel Mission, 'Saint' Junípero Serra’s grave site"

Our church needs to stop raping kids (Southpark)

(New York Times) A Catholic mission in Carmel, California, was vandalized on Sunday, with statues toppled and paint splashed on walls, tombstones, and doors, just days after an 18th-century friar [and genocidal rapist, murderer, child abuser, and pro-military European invader, Catholic missionary, who forced conversions of Native Americans and made the "New World" safe for Spanish and subsequent British imperialism] buried there.

Armed conqueror in the name of God?

Junípero Serra was canonized [a few days ago] by Pope Francis [in a travesty of church procedures to first conduct a thorough vetting of a candidate for sainthood, which includes the confirmation of at least two miracles, a process that was conveniently skipped by papal decree in the case of Serra so that the popular pope on his first visit to the U.S. could wow crowds by canonizing a "local U.S. saint" for U.S. crowds to cheer on] the police and officials at the mission said.

 

Get the h*ll out of God's holy house, you st*pid wh*re and b*tch before I rape you! (Femen)

 

Employees of the Carmel Mission discovered the vandalism inside the basilica’s entrance courtyard and said it appeared to have been done early Sunday morning, the mission said in a statement posted to Facebook. 

• PHOTO: A statue of Junípero Serra was toppled and splattered with paint over the weekend at the Carmel Mission in California, just days after Pope Francis elevated him to a Catholic "saint" (KSBW/nytimes.com).

“Apparently a person or persons broke in, splattered paint, and toppled down the courtyard statue of St. Serra and other historic statues on display,” the statement said. It urged readers to pray that the perpetrators “take responsibility for their actions on this sacred property and that they seek reconciliation.” More 

 

"Saint of Genocide" reads the inscription by pro-Native American demonstrators trying to bring attention to Catholic travesty of calling a war criminal a "saint" (nytimes.com).

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What was California's mission system?

Ghosted by Catholic church

Californian's mission system was a systematic "concentration camp"-style method of partitioning Native American land. The "missions" were used to abduct women and children -- often including the sexual abuse of the children -- until men surrendered and submitted to conquest by the Holy Roman church. Touted as if the system were bringing the Bible to ignorant "half humans," the forts were in fact franchise-like outlets for the takeover of people and the occupation and eventual imperial conquest of new lands by the violent Spain empire and its Conquistadors.

Don't be a hypocrite, future-St. Frances. Stop the rape of children by your priests, bishops, cardinals, co-conspirators. Do more than give lip service to women of the church! (AP)