idk how to respond to this I'm just sitting here with a lot of memories of being raised where people took God very seriously and wanting to say that it was really bad
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My experience isn't unique though, there's soooo many people out there for whom god-based religions really fucked them up. like the anti gay thing was ubiquitous even without whats traditionally considered abuse. Much of my own abuse came from ppl taking God *really seriously*
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I think I'm bothered that ppl seem to dismiss my rough upbringing as being a weird fluke of abusive parents. Some of it was that but a huge chunk of it was directly caused by and enabled by their religious beliefs.
this was also the case with my parents, I don't think it's that god-based religion is bad per se but that a lot of ppl don't have the intelligence / whatever else to interpret it in a sensible way and just twist it around their own biases / tendencies
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I feel like most of liberal style modern American society has been exposed to defanged religion, and I agree defanged religion is way less scary and is more of a personal lifestyle choice.
But a ton of religion elsewhere is not defanged
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Grew up and raised with major fundamentalists preaching fire and brimstone style sermons every Sunday. Young Earthers who were quite anti-science, among other beliefs antithetical to logic and reason. Science provided a framework to see that most of I had beaten into my head was
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