Reply #5: It's one thing the Catholic haters don't quite get...we're not Mormons.

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We don't lockstep with the Church. We leave the church and still feel a tie to it. Even many with grievances who stay don't lockstep.

Just because the pope says it doesn't mean most Catholics believe it. For some it's a cultural identity thing. I call myself an Agnostic...and at times it's easy to see that I very much kept some of the values (the ones I WANTED to keep) with me. Even then we're not exiled from the community as a whole...at least I wasn't.

It's one that I like to believe that I've severed but I just can't quite hate it collectively. Individuals (especially those in the highest seats and the lock-steppers) yes...but as a whole no.