I was born and raised catholic but I put that all behind me now, and renounced my faith. I am now part Agnostic and hold some contemporary neo-shamanic beliefs. I guess you could say I am way more leaning towards the belief that there is an after life, as for One all powerful entity that is controlling this afterlife I am not so sure.
The abandonment of my former faith came so easy, mostly in part from things I have seen in life and experienced on my own. This is very normal for a lot of former Catholics. I don't think any other real religion has as high of a drop out rate than the Catholic church. I think they bring it on themselves mostly, the preisthood is failing because these days everyone likes and wants more and more sex, If they just alowed preist's to marry and they didn't have to take a vowe of celebacy I think they would see a dramatic increase in preists and wouldn't be struggling so hard to keep people's faith.