[Serious] Questions about Belief and Personal Identity

[arewethereyet]

When I was in SC my son played baseball and football so I met a lot of the other parents.  I noticed that after the exchange of names the next step was about your church affiliation...always.  I always found it rather rude.  My usual answer was that I was raised Catholic and with enough of the typically Southern flavors of faith...that was enough said.

When my sister lived in SC, she said that she had people simply stop the conversation and walk away when she said she was Catholic. (This was late 90s. Hopefully the culture has shifted a little bit since then.)

My sister also said she drove by signs advertising a KKK picnic. I hope that sort of thing just doesn't happen anymore. But maybe it does...

I left in 2006 - asking about your religious affiliation was still a thing.  I had one lady who came to the door from a Baptist church actually gasp...audibly, when I said I was raised Catholic.  Mind you, she was standing in my damn house as I had invited them in since the night was chilly when they came to recruit me.

Just off the highway between our tiny town and a bigger town was a sign for the Girl Scout camp.  I nearly drove off the road the first time, right next to it, was a sign that read: KKK Rally, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, public invited.

That sign popped up every month like clockwork for several years.  That's not to say that after the signs stopped going up the rallys stopped....oh, no.  They were just a little more on the down low since Horace King was in deep doo doo with the police.  He was the Grand Dragon of the KKK.  He seriously had life-sized Klansmen in their robes depicting status in his front yard.  

Seeing caravans of vans and trucks bedecked with rebel flags pulling into the area one weekend a month was unnerving at best.