{"id":9631,"date":"2015-04-28T12:55:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T16:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=9631"},"modified":"2015-04-28T12:55:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T16:55:44","slug":"we-cant-help-ourselves-part-2-why-a-former-catholic-and-a-current-catholic-dont-like-catholicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/04\/we-cant-help-ourselves-part-2-why-a-former-catholic-and-a-current-catholic-dont-like-catholicism.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We can&#8217;t help ourselves,&#8221; part 2: &#8220;Why a former Catholic and a current Catholic *don&#8217;t* like Catholicism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Alicia de los Reyes and me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><strong>Alicia:<\/strong> <em>You said you love the Church, but you don\u2019t necessarily like Catholicism. When I was Catholic, I liked being Catholic, but I didn\u2019t love every aspect of the Church or of going to Mass. What are some aspects you don\u2019t *like* about the Church, but stick with anyway?\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eve:<\/strong>\u00a0Hmm, this is a good question. It\u2019s hard for me to sort out stuff I don\u2019t understand from stuff I dislike (which maybe says not-great things about my intellectual vanity!) but the top two things which come to mind are jargon and, especially, hierarchs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/surprisingfaith\/2015\/04\/we-cant-help-ourselves-why-a-former-catholic-and-a-current-catholic-dont-like-catholicism\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alicia de los Reyes and me: Alicia: You said you love the Church, but you don\u2019t necessarily like Catholicism. 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