I am curious...

May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: scratch

do all the atheist/agnostic .orgers have catholic backgrounds...or at least some experience with catholicism?

May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: dustybooks

yellow

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May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: dustybooks

also no

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May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: scratch

liar...

May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: Ill

Everyone has an experience with Catholicism.

i'm not emaline

May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: scratch

what is your religious background, db?

May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: dustybooks

?

"...and a bowling ball that generates electricity!" bloop bloop bloop BLOOP BLOOP BLOOP bloop bloop bloop BLOOP bloop BLOOP bloop BLOOP bloop bloop BLOOP BLOOP bloop BLOOP! Someday...

May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: Tate

I went to a Jesuit college, but that's my only Catholic experience.

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May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: dustybooks

define background. i don't really have much to give you...

"...and a bowling ball that generates electricity!" bloop bloop bloop BLOOP BLOOP BLOOP bloop bloop bloop BLOOP bloop BLOOP bloop BLOOP bloop bloop BLOOP BLOOP bloop BLOOP! Someday...

May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: scratch

Ill, I don't. I've never been to a catholic church. ever ever. Only dinky protestant ones.

May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: dustybooks

I think my mom went through a heavily catholic period something like 10-12 years before I was born. both my brother and my sister were baptized during that time. but I don't know if that counts as background, I never had an inkling of it.

"...and a bowling ball that generates electricity!" bloop bloop bloop BLOOP BLOOP BLOOP bloop bloop bloop BLOOP bloop BLOOP bloop BLOOP bloop bloop BLOOP BLOOP bloop BLOOP! Someday...

May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: scratch

well, why is it, in ur life (db) that you decided.."gd sucks like u cant Even proof it...duh)....clearly most young ppl decide this sort of thing b/c they hate their "religious" parents or they come from a catholic background....

May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: scratch

or...their parents just sucked in general.

May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: dustybooks

my parents are atheists.

"...and a bowling ball that generates electricity!" bloop bloop bloop BLOOP BLOOP BLOOP bloop bloop bloop BLOOP bloop BLOOP bloop BLOOP bloop bloop BLOOP BLOOP bloop BLOOP! Someday...

May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: scratch

did they suck?

May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: dustybooks

no actually, they were pretty cool. i mean i didn't like my parents any more when i was a teenager than anyone does. but before and after that they've been great.

I've never been to church and actually I think I just decided to start going every week, it's about time I rebelled against my bourgeois roots!!!!!!! thanks u for inspiring me

"...and a bowling ball that generates electricity!" bloop bloop bloop BLOOP BLOOP BLOOP bloop bloop bloop BLOOP bloop BLOOP bloop BLOOP bloop bloop BLOOP BLOOP bloop BLOOP! Someday...

May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: scratch

very interesting, bourgeios roots???

May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: dustybooks

not at all really. interesting, i mean.

gd sucks like u cant Even proof it...duh)

May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: !gas!panic!

:D :D

May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: mauve

haha yes yes yes.

ginger sling with a pineapple heart

May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: Ill

See now THIS is an agenda.

i'm not emaline

May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: scratch

paranoid imo

May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: !gas!panic!

clearly most young ppl decide this sort of thing b/c they hate their "religious" parents or they come from a catholic background....

is this your honest thesis, scratch?

do you think any nonbeliever doesn't believe because, you know, they don't actually believe? or is it always the result of some odd adolescent freudian repression?

May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: scratch

what aboot u gp?

May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: !gas!panic!

my dad was catholic. my mom is christian but not catholic. i've got nothing interesting or unusual to report as far as my interfamily dynamic goes. religion wasn't much of a flashpoint for us.

May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: scratch

k. Just sayin' that I never met hardcore atheists til' bout 3 years ago when I moved to urban areas. They all had one thing in common. CATHOLICISM. (somewhere, somewhen) And if the kid hadn't experienced it, then the atheist parents had. It's all reactionary as far as I can tell. A hatred for something very real in one's own life that claims something is irrefutably true when that something is full of shit. The catholic church seems to produce alot of this. And, by judging all the scandals I've seen in the "church", I'd probably feel the same way if I was exposed to it.

May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: scratch

so, try GOD for only 19.95!!! And there's more!!!!....

May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: !gas!panic!

i guess i don't undertand why your view isn't that the push churched these people away? seems the easiest, simplest explanation to me. no need to gussy it up with the weird freud stuff.

May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: scratch

no that is my view. I just don't understand it b/c I have no experience with the catholic church. I'm certain the catholic church is a big fat farce. Christ (the man) did not preach about heirarchies and power. blahblahblahasdfjas;dfj. old news I know. But the catholic church is really weirdo imo.

May 7th (10 days ago)

Posted by: !gas!panic!

yeah that's true, but in some ways it's nowhere near as odd as some protestant denominations. we never had anyone crying and holding their hands up to god and shit like that at any mass i attended. catholicism is odd, yes, but catholics are no odder than any other christians.