• EtherealMoon @lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Growing up I only ever saw church and religion on TV and never really thought much of it. One day as kids my mom pulled my brother and I aside and asked us, “It doesn’t really make any sense for there to be a bearded man in the sky, does it?” That’s all I really needed to hear to be science-minded for the rest of my life.

    I’m a little jealous of people who grew up with church communities though. There’s lots of good people out there, even if it’s for the wrong reasons.

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Don’t be jealous of us. Not when I sometimes wake up at night from a dream when I am in hell or can just sit there for hours replaying the repeated physical abuse and it takes everything I have to not track those people down and “have a conversation with them”.

      The recovery from religion foundation has been a big help.