RE: Growing up, did your parents have weird rules because of religion
November 15, 2018 at 12:08 am
My mother, a staunch Catholic, was against sex education of any kind and was always on the watch to make sure my brother and I didn't commit the mortal sin of masturbation.
My father was a Bible-thumping Lutheran who firmly believed in the scriptural message, "Ye shall beat them with a rod and by the blueness of their wounds shall [disobedient children] be cleansed." His favorite tool of "correction," however, was a leather strap which he would wield at the slightest provocation. He died in 2003 and I did not shed even a single tear for him at his funeral.
My father was a Bible-thumping Lutheran who firmly believed in the scriptural message, "Ye shall beat them with a rod and by the blueness of their wounds shall [disobedient children] be cleansed." His favorite tool of "correction," however, was a leather strap which he would wield at the slightest provocation. He died in 2003 and I did not shed even a single tear for him at his funeral.
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
