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RE: How many atheists here had a Catholic upbringing?
September 2, 2011 at 11:56 am
Yes, I was brainwashed into Catholicism, specifically the Roman Catholic denomination.
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RE: How many atheists here had a Catholic upbringing?
September 2, 2011 at 4:43 pm
I was raised a Lutheran. Almost was confirmed, not that I really understood or cared about Christianity.
For about a year I was a deist, unable to let go with the other hand to the first cause.
Then I simply stopped caring about such.
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RE: How many atheists here had a Catholic upbringing?
September 2, 2011 at 6:49 pm
Yes.
I'm always amused when protestants say to me "if you rejected that you should try "jesus."
WTF do they think catholicks do....other than sodomize children?
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RE: How many atheists here had a Catholic upbringing?
September 2, 2011 at 10:09 pm
Catholic schools from years 1 through to 10.
Church/chapel was just boring really, only the 'stations of the cross' ever really touched* me (Well they are murdering a lovely chap right in front of me! A bloke who I was told is like my best friend)
*emotionally touched
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RE: How many atheists here had a Catholic upbringing?
September 3, 2011 at 11:52 am
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2011 at 11:55 am by The Grand Nudger.)
To be fair Padraic, the RCC had such an insurmountable foe in the superstitions of Irish people that they decided that incorporation rather than confrontation would be the best way to garner new customer..er...converts. St. Padraig does meet Ronain and Oisin on the road after all.
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