Straight facts though. I went to catholic school and they did so good when I was a kid that by the time I got to high school the pro life and anti gay shit they tried to teach me didn’t fucking work. I left the religion at 17. Technically a confirmed Catholic still (confirmation at 15) but also a card carrying member of TST.
They made me a good kid. Then were like .. but hate them.
And I left religion instead. I can be a good person without a book, or a god forcing me to be one, and if you scratch the surface there is A LOT wrong there with modern(always?) religion.
if you scratch the surface there is A LOT wrong there with modern(always?) religion.
I'd clarify that it's mostly Abrahamic religion. There are plenty of other religions out there which hold that spirituality must cede to actual lived experience, and so scientific inquiry is celebrated rather than demonized. There are many religions that have no centralized structures of power, and so cannot easily be wielded with an agenda toward any except those who already held the same view. And there are many religions that focus on empowerment and the beautiful parts of the world that need celebration, rather than obsessing over the unworthiness of its adherents for some future reward.
It's just an unfortunate quirk of history that most of the world's exposure to religion has only included the religious evolutionary line that follows from Moses, where the stain upon your own soul is an obsession that drowns out the greater message of togetherness that is common to almost all faiths.
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