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[–] 19 points 3 days ago (1 child)

You must let him fill your god-shaped hole. Otherwise he burns you forever.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Is this a reference to the donut man? If so, hello fellow evangelical protestant upbringing survivor kirby-wave

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    not the person you originally asked but holy shit a fellow donut man rememberer?? hi! ive literally never found people outside of my specific homeschool cadre who remember this guy lol. did you also have to suffer through psalty the singing....hymnal? prayer book? whatever it was? 😅

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    No, that's new nightmare fuel to me, lol. I'm just frustrated by religious people asserting that any dissatisfaction or frustration is a result of lacking their particular god. But yes, I was raised southern baptist. 😞 Hello! 👋

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Oh my. That's as bad as Pentecostal/Holiness/Evangelist nondenom in my area, and maybe worse, since at least the holiness recall Miriam as the high priestess, and do suffer women teaching, even if they have to defer to men, but only if the man leads in a biblical manner. There are exceptions here that go both ways. I've listened to women preach at my favorite Baptist church, and a family friend was ordained as a woman preacher into the AME church, back home.

    I pretty much won't set foot into a white Baptist church, Church of God, Pentecostal, and I generally avoid nondenom/evangelical churches like the plague. All that said, the last time I was in a church was at a funeral, but I did attend an outdoor holiness service, lately, and was pleasantly surprised to hear a gospel hip-hop artist call out the homophobics, in one of his songs. The world of religion really is struggling to evolve, and the birthing process* can be long, slow, messy, and painful. It seems to me the most judgemental among the Christians are the ones who can't meet their own standards and sweat it, bit successfully hide that part of themselves from themselves.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Yeah. Our parents hit us if we disobeyed whatever stupid rules they came up with, including taking too long to get ready for church. Staying home was not an option. But they refuse to acknowledge that it was abuse, they think they were divinely entitled to treat their children like slaves.

    Personally, I see more harm than good in religion. Superstition is dangerous. I hope more people can start thinking for themselves instead of trying to outsource it to an unreachable authority.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    I and people around me came up similarly. A buddy remarked on a recent neighborhood shooting and said, "If they'd been whipped like we were, these things would stop, wouldn't it?“

    I said, "I don't know about that. Whipping never stopped me from a behavior, but it made me slicker. Did it ever stop you?" He acknowledged it surely didn't. It's almost like authoritarianism and overindulgence are both abuse.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    that nightmare fuel was a sunday school staple for me. And yeah that frustration is real. Outside of my parents (who are respectful of my beliefs) I'm not really around religious people much though, so me recalling these things is more quaint than anything.

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