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.

  • becauseoftheblood [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Grew up catholic but my childhood parish was relatively ok all things considered. We had younger more conservative priests take over from the aging Jesuit priests at one point and things got a lot more sexist and political and stuff, but could have been worse

    My cousins on the other hand are super fundamentalist Catholics and oo boy. TW: suicide, my oldest cousin killed himself so the family blamed public schools and secular life and started homeschooling all the kids and pulling further in to full on prepper communities. They don't have a weapons stockpile that we know of but they have friends with bunkers full of them so.. My one cousin has 13 kids at this point because she's trying to produce and raise as many good worshippers as possible. All the women in that family purposefully take on jobs that are more "women's work" like teacher or librarian or stay at home mom even though some of them apparently are geniuses (which ya IQ stuff is bullshit but still). They can't read/watch anything with magic/vampires/etc... since that's satanic (we snuck our "rebellious" cousin to watch Harry Potter once and I'm pretty sure that started his full on leaving the family ideals and just becoming a stoner- which is so much better I love that for him)

    • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      younger more conservative priests take over from the aging Jesuit priests

      Tale as old as time. You can really tell some of those dipshits haven't done anything besides going to seminary because they're so far up their self-righteous ass. The priests who have been in contact with vulnerable communities the longest often were the ones with the coolest ideas, and who kinda pushed me in the direction of liberation theology.