How I Became a Non-Catholic e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. As a sort of a defense as to how I became a non Catholic and left the Catholic Church, and by reading various works of Catholics, and converts to Catholicity, such as a Catholic, How I Became a Catholic, etc., I was inspired to write a work giving some of the reasons how I, became a non-catholic. For I was born and bred a Catholic and was a practical one up to the thirty-sixth year of my age, so that some Catholics, including some of my relatives, have expressed great surprise that I, an ignorant and illiterate person, should leave the Church - a short form I will use for the words Catholic Church - when intellectual giants, highly educated, wealthy, cultured and refined people are Catholics, or Protestants and others, after a lifetime of Protestantism and investigation, oftentimes near the end of their lives, become converts to Catholicity. They have even gone so far as to say that I had lost my mind, had become crazy, was in the power of: the devil, was stubborn, proud, etc. In view of that, then, I believe some sort of a defense or explanation should be made of my course or action for becoming a non-catholic and leaving the Church.