(December 4, 2023 at 10:45 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(December 4, 2023 at 10:25 pm)brewer Wrote: From what/how I understand, it seems that an honest believer would abhor what the catholics/catholic church has done to christianity.
But the above statement could probably be applied to all organized religions in some fashion.
Between groupthink and blind faith, kids are on the back end of concerns, seems to me.
Religious parents are seldom interested in taking care of their kids' behavior, or wildly controlling, no middle ground if true believers are involved. My cousins tend to go with "they'll figure it out eventually." Eventually often means a 18 year old who quits the 7th grade in disgust and goes to work in the family meth lab.