Why do most people who convert from Catholic to Protestant do it because of bitterness?

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or ignorance of their faith?

Every ex-Catholic that I have ever come across has been extremely hostile and bitter toward the Catholic Church, often to the point of extreme obsession with wanting to destroy the Church.

But, by contrast, most Protestants who convert to Catholicism do it because they did their research into history and the writings of the Christians of the early Church and found them to be very Catholic in their beliefs and practice. And most Protestants who convert to the Catholic faith have no bitterness toward the Protestant congregation that they left. But they bring the good of their Protestant experience into the Catholic Church.

I've been a Catholic for over 12 years and never been "touched" by a priest. And I've been to parishes from coast to coast and in between.

Answer 1

My father left the Catholic Church and I believe it was because he didn't want the Church to view his divorce with my mother as wrong. Most people leave the Church because they find it too hard to adhere to the Church's teachings so they leave to make themselves feel better.

Answer 2

I can't speak much about Protestants converting to Catholicism, but for Catholics going the other way I think a lot come from bitterness because there is a strong push in the Catholic doctrine & beliefs towards absolutes, which many people can find repressive. This teaching that things are sometimes absolutely right or wrong can definitely cause people to feel marginalized within the church and bitter that their own faith has made them feel unworthy of God's love or like they are no longer welcome as part of a community.

Can't speak for everyone, just my 2 cents...

Answer 3

well, it is a personal matter (case to case basis).

and i think that you should also try to discover the real face of the catholic church (beginning from the earliest records to the middle ages to this modern times) Even the past popes themselves didnt always agree to their predecessors/successors.

and by the way, as you have claimed, if these people have felt some bitterness towards the catholic church when they became protestants, maybe because they had some bad experiences or they were enlightened by the truth that all that time they were being misled.

Answer 4

You must have met different former Catholics than I have, because I know many, many former Roman Catholics who are now protestant who are NOT bitter about the Holy Roman Catholic Church.

They just changed churches because as they studied the Bible for themselves they found that they needed to be in a different church whose beliefs were similar to theirs.

It sounds like you have met people who did research into historical writings. From the writings many of my Protestant friends have researched, they have chosen just the opposite, including my pastor.

Answer 5

Excuse me? I'm not sure what you're asking. Are you asking, Do Catholics who leave the church, do so out of bitterness? And do Protestants who leave their faith, do so out of bitterness?

My answer---I would imagine that those who flip-flop from one faith to the other have been told that what they are doing in their lives is sinful. So, they're "church" shopping, in order to find a church that will tell them that sin is okay.

Good luck with that.

Answer 6

No offense my best friend is Catholic but this came across as vary bitter and stereo typical

All right don't loop me in with some of theses other posts I just don't think your priest would agree with some of the things said in your question

Answer 7

A a child I attended Catholic School, but I am a Prostestant. O believe that there is good in all religion, however the catholic religion in my belief lacks a great deal of free will, They tell you how to worship, when to worship, and who to worship, (saints, nuns, and priest) When the bible clearly indicates, to call no man on earth your father, but you have a Father in Heaven=Conflict/Priest.

Answer 8

I have never met a Bible reading, born again believer who later converted to Roman Catholicism but I have met many former Roman Catholics who have embraced the True and Living God of the Bible.

I was born into a Roman Catholic family and spent the first 17 years of my life tied to that religion by family obligation. I attended Roman Catholic Schools for 12 years, served as an altar boy, partook of all the sacraments, etc.. I learned a religion of condemnation, not freedom, and penitence, not forgiveness. When I was free to choose my own path I left the Roman Catholic Religion and God behind.

I attended no church of any kind until I was into my forties. I was married (for the third time) and my wife bore my first child. We began attenting a local Protestant church because we wanted our child to learn the 10 Commandments and the "Golden Rule" and attending church seemed like a good idea. I had no pre-conception that God was real, in fact, in my heart I believed that he was not, that He was just a "good idea".

Several years went by and several churches, all meaningless, until we stumbled into a church filled with believers that actually believed what the Bible states and tried to live their lives accordingly, not perfect, just doing the best they could, but they tried. There was minimal falseness, minimal condemnation, and minimal hypocrisy (there will always be some because we are all human sinners). I learned that God was real, I learned who Jesus really is and I learned that there is a purpose for my life in the hands of a loving and compassionate God.

I began, for the first time in my life to read the Bible, actually read it and study it (not just glance through it) and I discovered the basic truths that God placed within it for me.

Along the way I discovered that the Roman Catholic religion does not hold to the truths of the Bible, that this religion instead follows the teachings of a man, their appointed Pope, and that many of the teachings of the Roman Catholic religion oppose the teachings of the Bible and lead their congregants away from the Truth.

I spent 12 years in Roman Catholic schools, receiving Roman Catholic religious instruction every school day and attending Mass several times weekly. I spent all that time learning the Roman Catholic way and it took only a short time in the Bible to discover that most of it is non-biblical teaching.

I am not hostile to the people who follow the Roman Catholic religion but I AM saddened that many followers of that religion may spend an eternity away from our Lord because they will not hear the truth of the the Bible unless they read the Bible. They will not hear the truth of the Bible in the Roman Catholic churches of America.

What is the truth? John 14:6 states "Jesus told him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.".

Not through sacraments, not through prayers to false gods, not through worshipping idols, not through Mary, the human mother of Jesus the man, not through baby baptism and most certainly not by giving money to the church. These concepts were created by man for man's purposes. They do not serve the True and Living God of the Bible!

The acceptance of Jesus' sacrifice as the atonement for your sins is the only way to the Father in heaven and you don't need a church or "priests" for that, you only need to choose Jesus.

Rom 10:9 if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Rom 10:10 With the heart one believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses, resulting in salvation.
Rom 10:11 Now the Scripture says, No one who believes on Him will be put to shame,
Rom 10:12 for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, since the same Lord of all is rich to all who call on Him.
Rom 10:13 For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

Answer 9

You really think Jesus would be filled with pride seeing the Pope sitting around in his white frock, luxuriating in the infinite wealth of the Vatican and who’s got the gumption not only to wear red Prada loafers but to raise his hemline in order to flaunt them to the world. And the Roman Catholics whose devotion permits his tyranny to thrive.

Answer 10

i dont know about bitterness, but i think people love that "fire" some christian churches have. catholics have too much traditions to follow... some people are just lazy. i disagree with people talking bad things about pope. I mean, what did he do wrong?

Answer 11

there are such a brilliant number of Protestant church homes and that they do no longer seem to be unified. some could desire to transform Catholics, i'm particular. that's no longer their important undertaking. maximum are there to offer non secular advance for their participants.