• aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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    My mom smiling at everyone as we walk into church immediately after she bent me over her knee in the parking lot for saying I didn’t want to go to church.

    It just occurred to me that I’m saying the same thing as OP. We were victims of cultists.

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      Ah, the good old days of browsing the Landover Baptist Church website.

      Where you could buy a T-shirt that reads: “STONE DISOBEDIENT CHILDREN.”

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        I’m sure that would work, but giving weed to people who are still developing is not acceptable, even for religious purposes.

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        Ah yes. As an atheist, the activity I miss the most is getting together with the community and beating children to death with rocks.

        (Obvious sarcasm is obvious I hope)

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          Having grown up around a lot of fundies, I’m not even remotely surprised.

          Like, the amount of fucked up shit I heard or had said to me as a kid by my very religious family, including being told at a young age that if I didn’t stop touching things at the grocery store, my grandfather was going to rip of the arm and beat me to death with the bloody stump.

          Of all the times in my life, that was definitely more than one of them.

          Also, this story was repeated as nauseum over my adolescent/teen years for fuckin yucks…

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      My brothers, father, and students, when I was still in secondary school. That was 15-20 years ago now. Brothers don’t talk to me(one of them blocked me), one of my bullies hanged himself in the family barn, and my father still yells at me. But my mother is a saint.