(September 9, 2015 at 11:19 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Do you have any idea what your mother's reasoning was?
Why did your mother object to you having sex education?
Our church heavily emphasized the concept of "the World versus Christians", and she felt that it wasn't the place of the school (secular government) to teach me about sex, but that it was something I needed to learn via the Church's teachings only.
Similarly, I grew up without any form of TV broadcast/cable, even though we had a television set and VCR, because an evangelist had told them, quote, "Television is Satan's way of sneaking into your home". The VCR setup let them control 100% of what we watched, usually via tapes checked out from our public library (she's a theatre professor, so lots of Broadway and classic movies) and from our church library (Christian videos). Today, I often joke that it's kind of amazing I turned out straight, given the sheer volume of Broadway musicals to which I was subjected as a child.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
