• GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    Times like these I’m glad I grew up catholic before switching to atheism because it makes me completely immune to all this trad bullshit. Like a vaccine, I guess.

    • chickentendrils [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      6 months ago

      Yeah I was totally checked out by 5th grade. I found my old schoolwork once, and on “religion class” tests the questions are like “what do you/we believe about x” and all my responses after a point in 4th grade are like “Catholics believe…”

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      6 months ago

      I feel like protestantism was even better for this, my parents are 0/5 for raising kids into religious adults lmfao huge L for the anglo church

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        As hardcore as my mom is in the lutheran church not one of her kids go to church. She forced us to go to sunday school every week and then church after that while dad, who was raised catholic as a kid, sat at home watching Friday the 13th and enjoying his 2 hours of peace. I was always so jealous of him.

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        Every former Catholic turned atheist I know still have some lingering positive feeling about some elements of the faith, even if overall they say “fuck the church”.

        Every former Protestant turned atheist I know thinks every church should be burned to the ground and sowed with salt and every priest should be flayed alive.

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      6 months ago

      Lol me too, being naturally contrarian in a catholic conservative home made me fall into the right side of history.