That girls wearing shirts that showed any sort of curvature were leading boys to hell. RIP girls with anything larger than a B cup.
And then there was a transfer student I became friends with. Didn’t have the words for them at the time but probably non-binary. They used a chest binder and got in trouble for that. Damned for having boobs, damned for trying to minimize them; damned for just existing.
To stay away from Father Dale (Fushek) and his hot tub parties. It wasn’t the message that creeped me out, it was the cold and guilty tone. The nuns and staff knew what was going on, but instead of police, they were just trying to move him somewhere else. Today he walks free in Scottsdale, AZ and is seen living the high life at various fancy restaurants. If we give him hell, we’re the ones that get kicked out.
Damn, we’ve got his name, his crime, and current location, and reporting him to the law will do nothing??
I looked him up. They did catch him but they only fined him for $250
He spends more than that on one meal in Scottsdale. Pathetic.
My diocese had one of those too. He ran the Newman/student center at the university. The bishop knew about him and “applied restrictions” to him, but it wasn’t until he died that they publicly investigated him.
It was about ten years after he died that the investigation report came out. They concluded “there was a homosexual culture” at the Newman Center to blame.
During this investigation, no direct information was learned that Msgr. Kalin was homosexual or was a practicing homosexual; however, there was sufficient testimonial and anecdotical [sic] information learned during the investigation to confirm Msgr. Kalin did seek out and prefer the company of men. Much of this exacerbated later in his life due to ongoing medication and treatment for Parkinson’s disease.
There were many crazy things, but the one that affected me the most was my RE teacher’s insistence that all non-Catholics would go to hell. My best friend’s dad, who was an atheist and a very kind person, had died a few days before and it made me really upset. My parents complained to the school about it.
We were taught creationism since an early age. At some point they had to teach evolution to meet government curriculum requirements, but the entire time they kept emphasising “it is just a theory!!, and there is no real evidence for it”
Oh and during the week or two when evolution was taught, suddenly all we were doing in religion class was watching videos that “debunk” evolution, and “prove” creationism
I remember one of those videos which more or less boiled down to “the human eye is so complex that there is no way that it couldn’t have been created.”
Wasn’t until I was older that I thought, hey wait a minute. Other animals see way better than us, and there are many animals that see worse kind of proving the whole trial and error thing, and then you also realize we need corrective lenses because our vision fails and there are cataracts and lazy eyes and colorblind and then blind people. Maybe it’s not such perfect creation after all but instead a bunch of trial and error over millions of years
Not to mention that, for the longest time, that was the one they went to because science didn’t really have any kind of reasoning or theory for how it’d’ve come about and was considered, at the time, unknown; but, in our current present, now we do. Funny how science works.
We are all born hated by god and we have to earn his love.
I, too, was raised catholic.
Gotta indoctrinate that guilt of being born human beings early and often, took me almost 10 years to deconstruct and let go of those fears
Honestly don’t know if that’s worse than the protestant message that “god is omnipotent, all knowing, created good and evil, created you in his image, loves you and wants you to go to heaven, buuuuuut sorry, he can’t unless you “freely” choose to accept him into your heart. Yep, the heart he made, the mind he gave you, yeah, those are going to send you to hell. Nothing he can do about it, it’s on you. Totally not a weird, abusive, logically inconsistent relationship we have with him.”
Then stack on top of that “the woman should serve the man in the same way the church serves the Lord”. Just problematic all the way down.
If it was as simple as, “the man hates the woman just as god hates us” then the next step is easy. Fuck that guy, I’m out.
Two stories:
My mom was in a religious school for a few years, and her craziest story was sex Ed, which was mandated in the state at the time. The entire class was “take this shoebox home.” Literally no other instructions. The shoebox contained a mirror and nothing else. It was 20 years later before she realized what the mirror was for, because she wasn’t informed it was a sex Ed class.
ETA: the school was mixed gender, the classes were not. Girls had separate classes from boys. The mirror was for standing over and seeing that you do, indeed, have a vagina, and then gaining absolutely other information
I was homeschooled, but not in a religious way. My mom ordered the books the state told her to order. When we got them they were fine, until we got to the science module and it told us how ancient humans and dinosaurs lived side by side. … My mom immediately ordered different books.
I admit, I have no idea what the mirror is for
I know, but only because of an early episode of Family Guy.
To stay away from the class pet
Good to know Mr. sexy_animal_fucker.
My science teacher showed us pictures of the dragons that people hunted and about the hidden coves where dinosaurs still exist and there’s native tribes that know about them but nobody talks about it because it would kill their evolution narrative
If someone were to break out a stegosaurus right now, it wouldn’t disprove evolution, it would disprove the extinction.
To disprove evolution you would need to interrogate a horseshoe crab to find out what they looked like before.
The theory of general relativity. Honestly, I understand it better now, and it’s still pretty crazy.
My wife went to Catholic school in the 70s. Not sure how it came up, but someone asked how King Herod died and the nun said he ate so much his stomach exploded. My.mom went to Catholic school in the 50s. She was told that Martin Luther “ate babies”
I remember some wild story about a guy who was killed by some other guys, and then buried in a cave with a big rock and who came back to life, but nobody saw it, but somehow became two other guys as well.
There was another mad story about the whole world and everything on it being built by magic over six days too, but I think they were joking about that.
The sticker book was kinda cool though, and getting a sticker for every lesson and service I attended. Not completing that before I walked out aged eight, saying “But this is all wrong” is my only regret.
Good one. Hahaha😄
I once had a speaker come in and tell me that every Indonesian is subhuman filth and they all deserve to die
Australia?
Nope, American Jewish school
What a weirdly specific type of racism for that part of the world.
What’s wrong with Indonesians in particular?
They’re the largest Muslim country
I don’t remember anything crazy. Unless you consider what’s in the Bible as crazy. It was a really positive experience for me. I started out in the public system and really didn’t like it. I asked my parents to switch me. Kids were an awful lot nicer in the religious school.
