Anonymous #2 4w

you already go to school, it’s just an extra day you have to go somewhere and get told existentially terrifying things

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Anonymous gods_favorite_heckler 4w

idk what church you went to but i was raised catholic and allowed to make my own decisions about continuing attending by middle school (i didn’t) and i never considered what they had to say scary. just liked sleeping in and wasn’t sure about the beings of the universe

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Anonymous #2 4w

grew up pentecostal/aog. got told the rapture could happen at any moment and you could get left behind for any reason. also god is always watching your every move so any mistake and he’ll know. the slain in the spirit stuff was fine but pretty intense. i’m not even xtian anymore and i still sometimes feel like im being watched and get have rapture fear. tbh i feel like if id been raised catholic id have a lot more normal relationship with the religion as a whole.

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Anonymous gods_favorite_heckler 4w

that could def make a difference. i mean there are def intense catholics but personally ig i just took it all and figured most of it was out of my control beyond believing in god. and i was a vehement atheist in hs lol, ive come around to believing in something but your parish would likely shun me lol

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Anonymous #2 4w

yeah it’s a Whole Thing. i think part of it is that in catholicism there’s a process to getting absolved from sin. you confess, do your penance and your done. protestants (at least the ones i know) don’t usually have that. instead, bc it’s thought there’s a direct link to god, you have to ask for forgiveness yourself but you never know if you did it right or if you’re actually absolved. that’s my guess at least, we all needed some more ritual involved in the whole process

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Anonymous gods_favorite_heckler 4w

This is lowkey why Christian is an outdated term nowadays. Like I was raised Lutheran (like protestant at its most liberal level or like catholic without the guilt and saints) and I had literally never heard of the rapture before adulthood. And yet my upbringing is under the same umbrella as people who grew up hearing that women must submit to men and demons are real. Saying you grew up Christian w/o explaining what kind is practically a waste of time it’s wild

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Anonymous #3 4w

lol when someone tells me they’re christian and i ask what denomination. it floors me how many straight up don’t consciously realize that’s a thing. like being able to not know you’re catholic but now know what sect of protestantism you belong to has always floored me

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Anonymous #3 4w

i honestly agree. a lot of evangelicals don’t think of catholics are christian (which is kind of crazy because they were the original christian’s) but to your point of having some crazy different theologies between sects/denominations. even regions with the same denomination can vary wildly like european roman catholic and latin american roman catholic are very different in some ways

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Anonymous #2 4w

My family ditched catholicism decades ago.

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Anonymous gods_favorite_heckler 4w

Long story to my family raising me as an atheist and thankfully didn't force me into it but my girlfriend was and she has effects from it.

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Anonymous gods_favorite_heckler 4w

lol, the more intense than me catholics can get into it about sects of catholicism. esp around me everyone is irish/roman/latin american catholic and my fam is technically german catholic (never heard anyone else say this but my great grandma was adamant lol.) but trying to find a coinciding subsect is n the boonies is impossible so we just attended the closest thing, a roman catholic parish

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Anonymous OP 4w

heard, seen, and felt. it’s def a big reason i am the way i am but god do i with they were more chill about everything

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Anonymous #2 4w

that is actually unsurprising, glad to know denominational feuds are universal

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Anonymous OP 4w

see, i know so many people and protestants who claim forms of “religious guilt” as it is commonly referred to now and i just dont get it at all. idk if i’m just a weird person but i’ve never read through or learned about a religion and had parts of it like follow or scare me. completely foreign concept to me tbh

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Anonymous #2 4w

i think some people either really internalize or have been made to internalize the idea of original sin and that all humans are sinful by nature

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Anonymous gods_favorite_heckler 4w

My family ditched catholicism after the war. They realized God wouldn't allow suffering on that scale and that was pretty much it. My great grandfather specifically asked to "spare him all the Catholic bullshit" after he died.

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Anonymous OP 4w

reminds me of the song “You Want It Darker” by leonard cohen

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Anonymous gods_favorite_heckler 4w

Assassin’s creed origins trailer music 🔥

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Anonymous OP 4w

My mom was traumatized in Sunday school bc they kept telling her she was going to burn in hell so my grandpa came and took her out of it permanently

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Anonymous #4 4w

i got kicked out bc i kept saying jesus was like dracula

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Anonymous gods_favorite_heckler 4w

LMAOOOOOO

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Anonymous #5 4w

I am genuinely sorry for you

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