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My embarassing story and a favor
June 9, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Hi, my name is Rob.
I grew up catholic and have been struggling with what I was taught for years.
For example, the whole "sex is bad" thing. That messed me up to the point where I couldn't get it up as a teen. Luckily I got over it.
Anyways, I'm writing a book about how religious teachings really mess people up, and how they've overcome it.
I think that would help a ton of people. Waaay too many people walking around with guilt and shame because of what they were force fed when they were younger.
And I would love to hear some of your stories, and possibly put them in the book (of course, I would hide your name if you want to).
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RE: My embarassing story and a favor
June 9, 2014 at 5:03 pm
First off, welcome aboard!
I think I was lucky in that I don't think religion ever messed me up at all. I've heard some horror stories though. You'll find your anecdotes!
Good luck on that book, brah.
I'm a bitch, I'm a lover
I'm a goddess, I'm a mother
I'm a sinner, I'm a saint
I do not feel ashamed
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RE: My embarassing story and a favor
June 9, 2014 at 5:20 pm
Well, being raised as a Christian we were taught in Sunday School that premarital sex was bad. I never even watched porn or masturbated, I thought it was a sin. But when I finally came to enlightenment a couple months ago (I'm 17) it was a bit saddening for the first day, then the relief hit me. I felt like I had just gotten out of a Soviet labour camp after spending my whole life there, and it felt awesome. A couple weeks later I finally started to watch porn and hit on girls, now I had nothing to be ashamed about. Religion in general (but probably not every religion) keeps people from experiencing some of lifes pleasures.
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RE: My embarassing story and a favor
June 9, 2014 at 7:11 pm
As a kid I just found catholicism silly and boring.
I had to wait until I was much older to develop a firm dislike for the sons-of-bitches.
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RE: My embarassing story and a favor
June 9, 2014 at 7:30 pm
I'm afraid I won't be much help to you. I grew up in a religiously divided place in one of the most ferociously religious areas of the western world. Mum was devout but not pushy, Da was a free thinker, and only nominally Catholic. I went to Mass and Sunday school, was never molested by a priest (although there were a couple of novitiate nuns who figured prominently in some dreams that could have gotten me excommunicated), and in all had a gloriously happy childhood.
I think that from a very early age I had an inkling that the whole set up was a fraud, and so I suppose I never took it seriously enough to do me any lasting harm, much in the same way that 'Little Red Riding Hood' failed to instill in me a fear of talking wolves.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
