(May 11, 2018 at 6:39 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: I went through first communion and its one of the most uncomfortable experiences of my life. All first communions are preceded by a first confession, where you have to confess all your sins privately to an elderly virgin in a small creepy room.
An 8 year old doesn't have sins, so I literally made stuff up, as did my brother and lots of other kids. Also you have to memorize a lot of prayers and dress up in uncomfortable clothes publically. None of the kids really wanted to be there. It's humiliating and terrible really.
I have to say, probably one of my least favorite childhood experiences with the church, and you are told if you take communion with sin in your heart, it's a mortal sin, or that god might literally smite you.
(May 11, 2018 at 6:26 pm)chimp3 Wrote: I was 8 and was just going along. Every Wednesday Catechism then confession. What drudgery. By 11 I stopped going to confession and communion. I always faked the confession thing, sometimes made up shit to confess because I was a pretty good kid at that age. Then I would pretend I was doing my Hail Marys. Soon as I could think on my own I was out of Catholicism. By 13 an atheist.
Lol, I also made stuff up! That's funny.
Count me as a member of the made-up sins in confession club lol. I went to Catholic school grades K-12 and when they took us to confession, I made up sins to tell the priest because I was a pretty decent kid too other than typical kid-squabbles with my 4 brothers.
-Teresa
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