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Moostache

(9,895 posts)
2. As a former forced Catholic, I say good riddance to bad rubbish
Thu Jun 24, 2021, 02:30 PM
Jun 2021

There was a time in my youth that I was TERRIFIED of going to 'Hell'. I believed that if I was bad I was going to burn for eternity. This fear was played up weekly in classes and sermons from the priest and nuns of the Catholic ideological camp, err, I meant 'school' my parents sent me to. Eventually, I attained the age of reason, quit accompanying them to mass on Sundays and in adulthood abandoned the entire sick charade.

My own children have been raised entirely in a secular upbringing and while I freely answer their questions about 'god', religion, the church and everything else, I have never once fobbed off my own forced religious upbringing onto them. I am exceedingly proud of all of my children, as they are empathetic, kind and engaged in making sure that people are treated fairly and with dignity - and not one them ever had nightmares as a 7-year old child, fearing a molten pit of lava and being slowly lowered into it for thought crimes.

I am a proponent of completely ending the tax-exempt status of ALL religious organizations and support a massive property tax on all Catholic Church holdings as well. The money can be used to pay reparations to the evil cabal's victims around the world. Christ knows I could probably use a few additional therapy sessions from my own experiences 40+ years ago...

Free the world. Ban the Church and the Temple and the Mosque.

Although however, you can be one and a stellar repukliQuan? sprinkleeninow Jun 2021 #1
As a former forced Catholic, I say good riddance to bad rubbish Moostache Jun 2021 #2
DITTO!!!!!!!!! NT MANative Jun 2021 #3
Me too. I am a proud Democrat and glad to have dumped the Catholic crap in early childhood. lagomorph777 Jun 2021 #6
Dumped that nonsense 50 years ago Ritabert Jun 2021 #10
It sounds as if you raised your 4 much the way I raised... 3catwoman3 Jun 2021 #11
My wife and I partnered equally in the effort... Moostache Jun 2021 #15
If the conservative Supreme Court overturns Roe V Wade, will the ultra religious welcome Democrats andym Jun 2021 #4
Why would they? vanlassie Jun 2021 #13
The Repugs will revisit their "restroom" issue. After that, gays in NCjack Jun 2021 #18
I know lots of Catholic democrats. meadowlander Jun 2021 #5
I do too. We always joke that all my friends are Catholics. It does seem that way. Treefrog Jun 2021 #8
I am simply talking about the comments of someone claiming to be a priest, and reviewing niyad Jun 2021 #12
""You can't be a catholic and a Democrat"" "So I think that, in spite of himself, that nutbar may be meadowlander Jun 2021 #14
I do not have to do anything, Church history and current actions are there for everyone to see, niyad Jun 2021 #19
Are they going to chase the "other" away that are not 100% . . . Lovie777 Jun 2021 #7
Maroons like him oswaldactedalone Jun 2021 #9
My father was a Trappist Monk for a while and Thomas Merton was his novice master Beringia Jun 2021 #16
Priests TheBlackAdder Jun 2021 #17
Caesar, meet God. God, you know Caesar sanatanadharma Jun 2021 #20
Yes to both. niyad Jun 2021 #21
. . . niyad Jun 2021 #22
Thank you. Kath2 Jun 2021 #23
You are most welcome. The funeral that I attended did not include homophobia (we niyad Jun 2021 #24
yes, they love the pro-guns, anti-birth control type Skittles Jun 2021 #25
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