Being capital-C-Catholic is just about drinking red wine, have a natural tan, being nominally sexually repressed but very sexual at the same time, and keeping contact with your parents.
Hard times make based grandmas
Based grandmas make tasty treats
Tasty treats make happy grandkids
I was raised Catholic and I spent a full decade undoing the mental and emotional damage it did to me. The fact that even one person would willingly convert to catholicism as an adult is hilarious to me
Death to America
Me but evangelical Christianity.
Though I understand why people would convert, at least somewhat
Not me but parents, I just got second-hand catholic guilt and other fun neuroses as an inheritance.
Since I knew very little about Christianity (much less Catholicism) growing up i didnt even know that's what it was until a buddy described his struggle with shedding all the ways Catholicism fucks you up. Good news is we were already drinking and griping, which seems to be the main way you're supposed to deal with all that
Adult converts are absolute freaks (derogatory)
the difference between learning about religion via community vs. learning about religion through online psychos
I remember once my school had this weird evangelical guy come in to give a talk about how everyone goes to hell no matter what no exceptions.
Anyway I was 4 and that was how I was introduced to the concept of death would not reccomend
We had a lady that came in to tell us to never have sex because everyone has herpes (like seriously they don't even test for it in lots of STD tests), and you don't want to get herpes now do you?
I can beat that my sex education consisted of being instructed to perform a minstrel show about the subject by a man who would go on to become a far right politician.
the lesson was cancelled halfway through as he didn't think we were taking his instructions seriously enough
No way! My music teacher made us do a minstrel routine in like 3rd grade. She even explained the whole thing ( except the blackface).
I luckly went to a public school so avoided that shit, catholic schools here suck and are ubiquitous. They are "semi private", ie the state gives them a shitton of money for they to pay the teachers they control (although they must fullfill the mininum state-dictated curriculum, yet they have plenty of space to make you feel like shit if you are gay or got pregnant while teen), and then the nuns charge you for "building mantenance and shit" that the state doesn't cover, yet they make a big fucking profit with their fares and get to have control over the kids that are sent there.
Why so many kids are sent to catholic schools? Are we really so devote? Not at all, (tho there still are people that go to mass on Sundays), the thing is: public schools are free (ie poor people go there) so if you are a piece of shit that doesn't want your kids to mix with the poors, but you are a poor yourself, you sent your kids to the schools that charge you quite a sizable amount yet are affordable to you.
"Oh but I just want my kids to learn, and public schools are bad and underfunded and violent and always on teachers-strikes"
FUCK YOU :monke-rage:
Instead of paying all that money for yourr kids to be told they should use two condoms at the same time for better protection, you could be warring the capitalist state for more funding for public schools, but that would benefit the poors so that's a no-no for you, you slimy individualistic piece of shit. :monke-rage:
Anyways. Pain.
If Paul had tripped and fallen in to a well Christianity would be a much cooler religion.
converts are like gusanos in their fanatical need, both real and imagined, to prove themselves loyal and worthy
And like gusanos, they always seem to self-sabotage midway through arguments by revealing some laughable detail about their life that they could've easily kept to themselves. Young converts admit to never getting laid at the same rate that gusanos reveal their grandparents' incomes.
To top it all off, both groups make that mistake specifically because they don't realize how embarrassing their lives are from an outside perspective. A gusano is proud that their grandpa owned 7 refineries before the Revolution, in the same way a tradcath thinks their own virginity is an achievement. So from inside their bubble of ego, they try to brag about it - they think they're doing it to intimidate you, but really they subconsciously want to impress you. But surprise surprise, no one else finds that shit impressive.
converts in general are more hardcore than ppl who grew up in a religion but something about Catholicism specifially seems to attract the weirdest freaks
Tony Blair converted towards the end of his time as PM (if IRC) as his wife is RC. Like, as if he wasn't a massive fucking demon to begin with he adds an extra level of evil malignancy.
Anglos have their own Church, it just has almost identical liturgy to the Catholics and is headed by the queen instead of the pope
no fucking benefit
unless you're a very dedicated :libertarian-approaching:
Christianity is so weird idk how anybody can be like "yeah Catholicism/baptism/whateverism is the one true religion" when there were like 40 flavors of christianity that preceded all that anyway
Christianity is the framework for leftist orgs no I will not be answering questions.
I'm usually pretty up on stuff, having been raised in church, but nearly 100% of that image is new to me.
dude there's so much that's happened between 0AD and now that it's just wack, like even before protestantism there was so much variation in theological thought within christianity I can't even understand a fraction of it
like Marcionism which preached about how Jesus was an entirely new god, and that the creator god of the old testament, "the Demiurge," was actually evil (which tbh tracks because he sounds like a massive prick). And then even that had its own schism.
That's just gnosticism trying to tackle itself onto Christianity when it was on the rise.
Bro how can someone be both fully divine and fully human at the same time. What the fuck is a Filioque.
The only other contenders are orthodox or coptic and they are all the same age. Protestants all split from the Catholic Church. They're always younger.
the organization, yeah
but it took a while to get the theology worked out to what we have now
Fair point, but you can't really join a church of any of the other ones anymore, so the oldest one standing is Catholicism. In general I think it's a dumb own to say there's a bunch of different kind Christians, or religions in general, and how people act like finding the original would be best.
I assure you that the otherwise extremely "big c Catholic" Italy and Spain are anything but sexually repressed
Catholicism: Not allowed to fuck. Fucks
Protestants: Allowed to fuck. Do not fuck.
Protestants: Allowed to fuck. Do not fuck.
Jerry Falwell Jr would like to have a word.
Also, Mormons.
Evangelicals and Mormons stretch the utility of "Christian" as a descriptor well past it's breaking point.
I mean, they're no more outlandish than the scores of Gnostic sects that sprang up in the movement's wake.
Christianity has always been borderline Sci-Fi.
Its only cool because gnostics aren't managing investment banks or running for Senate.
I think it’s cool because it’s weird and spooky and Phillip K. Dick was into it
:zizek: And sho ve schee schat in thees way ze represhion of shexulaity axctually means more sex. Zhe kinkiest people are alvays ze most sexchually represshed. Zhis is why religious people are all perverts who want to do it in zhe ass.
Yes, indeed, latam too, it's a double-speak of being prudes while also being hypersexual. I don't know how to explain it, but basically what @Frank said.
i owe an eternal debt to my father for leaving the catholic church
I think referring to "People like Dasha, from Red Scare" ie the brooklyn podcaster Thielist converts everyone has been talking about
Seeing the largest pedophilia organization in human history and being like “oh yeah i want to be a part of that” should qualify you for an immediate trip to the re-education camp :gulag:
