Deconversion from Catholicism: the Sacraments

[m1chae15]

Ladies and Gents... The "Spirit of Vatican II", blood into wine into water. This young lady is hardly alone. Our fault, our fault, our own grievous fault. It's all fun and games until somebody loses a soul. That's the reality kids. Pork chop sandwiches! This young lady brings C.S. Lewis to mind, where he speaks of the truthful being closer to Christ than the liar. Cleavage = deafening breasts. Modesty = who chimes in? A Christian with 'what's wrong with cleavage'. Contradictions? Really?

[29Ocelot]

"I felt jipped."

I'm in love.

[ThatGuyWithHippyHair]

It's funny that you say that you didn't want to be left out by not getting confirmed, because in my own experience, the other kids at the Catholic school I went to didn't really take confirmation seriously at all. Most of them outright admitted that they hated religion class, which was a relief for me, because they didn't make a big deal out of my not getting confirmed. Probably it was because I had an excuse; it's not as if I said to them, "I'm an atheist and I don't believe this BS."

[aurianaserena]

When you sit across from the priest, it's called reconciliation. Confession is when you sit side by side with a screen preventing you from seeing one another. I'm an ex-Catholic atheist, too, btw. I seriously think it's because I knew more about my religion and the Bible than other Catholics that I became an atheist. the Bible and the Church make god look like a tyrannical, incompetent little b!tch.

[gangadhari108]

why are you sharing this bullshit who gives a fuck about you or what you believe or don't believe in

[unit529]

Jw ru a dude or a chick? not to stareotype but most athiests i've seen look like guys/girls at the same time.... >.<

[PandyFackleresque]

@unit529 That must blow your little mind right out your ears...

[unit529]

@PandyFackleresque yus but i never said that was a bad thing, my last girlfriend was a cross dresser lol >.> she is also a athiest. I am Islamic though.

[356pla]

@unit529 Interesting crowd you live among.

[unit529]

@356pla yup. and all the christians are intollerant. Or is that just all of them?

[oatstao]

what's wrong with Cleavage? Not every woman wants to look like a pin-cushion in a mans attire and hair cut.> I thought Athiests embraced individuality and sexuality? You are indoctrined satanists to remind you. You are a walking stick of contradicition and let's have a discussion of where I'm wrong. Can you come up with anything? Jesus is your light and you denounce him. Oh is it because he's a masculine figure, one you gays emulate but disrespect? ? talk talk talk, walk walk walk walk on

[PandyFackleresque]

@oatstao What are you even talking about?

[cjeffers101]

HA didn't know you were raised a catholic too, funky confirmation name. BTW Irish catholics don't get a middle name until they are confirmed so only 3 names (I am not one, theoretically I have 4 names too)

[Alphabex8]

growing up catholic, yep. 12 years of private school wasn't too awful for me cuz i found enough outcasts who zoned out during the teachings as well. i will say this though; i got a better education than all my public school friends AND the Jesuits taught us religious respect and history of world religions. but all this didn't stop me from being a little skater shithead at the time.

[roob1290]

Good story. There is so much I could say about Catholic turned atheists because I'm also one. Could I just add to the point you made at 6:00. That is probably the most repulsive thing about Catholicism as well with all other religions. They teach this shit to children! And it’s precisely because of this that we still have to put up with religion. If children weren't forced to blindly take up religion the world would be much different...

[roob1290]

.... Another reason I refuse to attend baptisms. Yeah it might seem harmless, as it’s a good opportunity to be with family and friends, but there is no way I’m going to celebrate an infant’s involuntary induction into a shitty religion.

[GratitudYAlegria]

LOL wow im christian. found this pretty funny.haha and the confession thing,ur dead on...

[ChurchOfKali66619]

"EGO mos sto unus vel EGO mos non sto."

("I will stand alone or I will not stand.")

---Official Motto of The Church of Kali

You deny God's existence, but (according to OUR Church) you're one of Her best! Don't change a thing!!!!!

[TheWitnis]

Everything that you are saying about the Catholic Church is true,that's some of the very reasonst,that the Catholic Church is heretical it teaches that man saves and keeps himself saved.When Jesus saves someone they know and understand what they believe and why they believe it.Again,this is not a DECONVERSION STORY,it is merely understanding that what they told you was true was really false.

[PandyFackleresque]

@TheWitnis Seeing as there's no such thing as god in the first place, I guess you're right that I never deconverted. However, you seem to be so blind to the irrationalities of your own religion that nothing else seems to matter to you.

[musicrover531]

@TheWitnis I usually don't argue on these things, but you really don't know a lot about Catholics. We don't teach that "Man saves himself". you've never been to a Catholic Mass or anything, have you?

[TheWitnis]

Baptism does not save you,in the Bible all who were baptised were those who confessed Jesus as Lord first.You just got wet,you were never a Christian,just a wet unbeliever.

[mmorrtt]

The thing about the Sacraments is that although infinite grace is made available, the amount received ultimately depends on our disposition. If you're trying to refill a water bottle but the cap is still on it you're not going to get anything in there, and that's really the same effect a poor disposition has on a soul receiving the Sacraments.

[preachingsin]

I was confirmed (but no fourth name, unfair!) I'm pretty sure just to not be like my sister who had passed on it. Incidentally it's my sister now who asks me questions like "Really, you don't think there is anything out there?". I also feel that the very existence of the confirmation process made me question with a veracity I hadn't yet possessed and by the end of my first year of high school took a great deal of pride in the arguments refuting god I thought I had been the first to come up with.

[Chrisnoscrub047]

was 6:12 supposed to turn me on as much as it did?

[T4148]

I've a similar story. I told my mom I didn't want to be confirmed and she said, "Too bad. You 'have' to be." I was just a kid so I did what I was told. Never felt anything spiritual upon communion day other than that I was gypped and a growing anger at the blatant hypocrisy of the other "catholics" around me. I should post my deconversion story too. Thanks for sharing yours!

[PandyFackleresque]

You should! Thanks for sharing!

[seathanskull]

I thought the wafers tasted so bad that I took mine out of my mouth. Dad sais my mouth would well up with sores-it didn't-so I started wondering. Then a couple of weeks later Dad and the priest ganged up on a scared bat that was trapped in the church-caught it in a jacket and beat it to death with a broom. That was enough for me at that age.

[PandyFackleresque]

Wow. That's some pretty bad trauma at such a young age. I'm sorry to ehar you had to go through that

[CousinoMacul]

I dropped out of confirmation classes.

[PandyFackleresque]

Well done!

[skank101266]

god will forgive evil and he loves you i got away from the catholic church over a bad divorce i did not cause it took 15 years to get over they took me in and life is good 15 years of playing in rock and metal bands a 15 year party it was great now i take my kids to church its not what the priest tells you to do its what your heart tells you if you ask for forgiveness im an idiot for telling you what you already know you will be fine

[PandyFackleresque]

OHMYGODPLEASEUSEPUNCTUATION

[skank101266]

you can tell i went to public school

[PandyFackleresque]

Hah! Well, you can tell I went to catholic school by my bitter outlook on life

[PokeMyBunny]

I got confirmed in the exact same setting. I even asked Brother Ed if it was okay that I didn't, but when I told another student I was not going to, he told me I would be the only one and that I shouldn't go against the church. I was like, "well fuck". So I did, and here I am today. I feel exactly the same, still don't believe in a supreme being.

[PandyFackleresque]

Good thing it doesn't matter anyway :D What was your confirmation name again?

[PokeMyBunny]

Patrick

[chon4186]

finger mustache, lolz

[handofnergal]

Funny...I used to be a Catholic too before I deconverted

Its was interesting hearing your experience because I had the same experience pretty much

You have inspired me to start my own series, thank you for sharing yours with us hun^^

[LatumWay]

I FINALLY got round to watching this. I've been super-busy drinking and setting off fireworks to commemorate the execution of a 17th century Catholic who tried to blow up the protestant king.

Yeah, we do that here.

Anyway, I totally would make a response to this if I had a deconversion sorry, but the church here is so pathetic and powerless at this level, I just kinda said one day "Hey, this God fella is quite the curiosity..." and the rest is history.

[JustAnotherX]

Oh, man.

Thanks for sharing this, it's super interesting.

The Danish Church works quite differenty, I can tell. I mean, I'm still a member of it, but it doesn't have any consequence, really. We were never forced to go, and it's the only way to change one's name here. As far as I know.

I'll be watching Haute Tension next weekend!

[PandyFackleresque]

Whoo! To all of that!

[dannypantsgm]

Really interesting. Seems like you and I went through all the same crap. I may respond with a video later. : )

[PandyFackleresque]

I'll look forward to it!

[twistedsoul019]

ugh I did 12 years of Catholic school too. It was such a nightmare! So glad I knocked that shit off.

[thekiddLdd]

Finally, someone who gets it. I felt the exact same way. even when i was little i didnt understand the concept of confession. it was embarassing and pointless. and how was i supposed to understand god at 7 years old? I could barely add and subtract. oh and i gagged at my first communion after the Eucharist. whoops.

[Maxdwolf]

You speak of cleavage like it's a bad thing. :)

If Eucharist wafers were Oreos, Catholics would rule the world.

I think most everyone knows of confession. Sacraments, not so much.

Thanks for sharing.

[PandyFackleresque]

It's a bad thing if most of your subscribers are there to see your giant ex-Mormon boobs :p

Also, yes, I agree. I'd probably go back to the church.

[PandyFackleresque]

I wish I could literally throw her under a bus

[toasterface86]

i chose grace as my name

[toasterface86]

i loved my first communion dress, it was so pretty. i was jealous of all the girls who wore gloves as well.

we did our first confession before communion. lol i always made up my confession.

[PandyFackleresque]

ME TOO! Where did they even get those?!

[toasterface86]

prob the little bridal store where the bought the dresses. i remeber a lot of small white dresses, flower girl dresses maybe? i wanted lace gloves so bad

[johncoyle23]

i lied to my parents

i fought with my brothers

i missed mass

same three sins i always said in grade school hahaha

[PandyFackleresque]

What an asshole. You should put a stop to that.

[PandyFackleresque]

If it weren't for that goddamn cleavage, those big dumb cow eyes, and her total crap sense of humour, I'd probably love her.