(May 10, 2011 at 2:12 am)Minimalist Wrote: I figured out that catholics were scumbags by age 11.
Well, AT age 11 actually.
I had been taught (if you'll forgive the expression) by nuns from age 5. Those gentle creatures would scare the bejabus out of us with stories about the martyrs and belt us with canes and bits of electrical flex. I though they were bloody 'orrible and hated them. I rarely got hit at home, even though I was a real little stinker.
At age 11 was sent kicking and screaming to the De La Salle brothers.(I had those cunts number at the interview) The good brothers did not use a cane or electrical flex, indeedly doodly not! They had custom made straps which they used with gay abandon and as their preferred teaching aide. Strangely, I found their cruel and vicious behaviour to be somewhat at odds with the gentle faith they taught.
THAT was the beginning of my loss of faith. It took another 9 years before I finally left the church and another 20 before I realised I simply no longer believed in god(s). My atheism has never been a choice for me. Rather,it was an inevitable conclusion I could deny for only so long.
Today, one of my irrational (?) beliefs is that it is NOT OK to hit a child,ever. This is a visceral belief, and one I do not argue or even discuss. Ironically, I don't even like children.(apart from at babycues of course).
