American fundamentalists especially, since I've heard that there are some absolutely wild beliefs getting passed around in those circles. Would love to hear from other folks though as well, since I've only had an outsider's view on this. I've heard that some of them believe that anyone who isn't religious is incapable of empathy, and of course all the Israel death cult stuff, but I'd like to know more.

Not necessarily dunking on Christianity as a whole here, even if I have some grave misgivings with how proselytization and child induction works in religion in general, this is specifically about borderline cultish stuff.

  • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I went to a Catholic church attended by 99% Mexicans and Sermons were in Spanish. 7/10 pretty reasonable experience, boring as hell though

    I remember interacting with Protestant white kids and I thought they were all fucking crazy and brainwashed as well as enormous hypocrites so I guess there's your anecdote. They would piss on the walls outside my apartments and kick soccer balls into our windows so hard they would flex and then make fun of us for being "dumb Catholics". They started a mini race war with like the three black kids also living in my apartments. I distinctly remember standing between them thinking "damn these dudes really going at it w/the racial animosity", they were just hurling black trash and white trash at each other. I just stood there thinking "I'm Mexican..." and even in my little fucked up 4th-5th grade brain I was like "wow this is some bullshit" went inside and realized I never wanted to deal with Americans ever again