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Originally Posted by SirLance
This is a hard decision. I believe in God, and in Jesus, with all my heart. But I have no faith in the Catholic Church.
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To qualify the following remarks, I was raised and still am a Catholic.
You don't have to be Catholic to believe in God and Jesus.
If you simply can't find reason to change the things that make you "a heretic", you could always resign yourself to the fact that you are a Catholic who sins. Believe me, there are a shit-ton of sinning Catholics who neither care about, or even recognize their sins.
Go with your heart, man. I feel that you shouldn't abandon your faith because you believe you aren't being a "good enough" Catholic. Go talk to a priest, get some perspective. There is something to be said for a person who recognizes they don't follow their religion "perfectly" and can't remedy that, but feel bad about it. While that's obviously not the perfect scenario, I don't know that a priest will tell you to go to hell (figuratively and literally) because you have differences in dogmatic opinion, even though you truly love God. I recommend talking to a priest, as your next step before self-excommunication.
Faith in anything just wouldn't be the same if it didn't get tested every now and then, would it?
