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Can you specify the obligations you're talking about?One can do all the same things, but you cannot follow the moral obligations of the Catholic Church without being a member of the Catholic Church, since you wouldn't be obligated. It's not following an obligation if you aren't obligated. I by no means suggested that religion has a monopoly on morality.
What if the obligations of the Catholic church are the same as the obligations of any normal society? How does one make the distinction between a lapsed Catholic who continues to fulfill these obligations due to their Catholic upbringing, versus a lapsed Catholic who fulfills these same obligations due to societal obligation, versus someone who fulfills these moral obligations due to their own sense of morality and guilt (an obligation to oneself)?