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[quote=Anonymous]Raised Catholic, turned atheist. As a child, I found the order promised by the Church very appealing. I also loved the music and the “visuals”. However, the dogma just never clicked. My church was not one of love or service, but judgment and doing things for appearances.

Sexism was rampant, and I saw how that limited the lives of parishioners even at a young age. Our church was one of the many with documented child abuse, and when the time came to pay the judgments and settlements, the archdiocese pulled out of its neediest and oldest communities first and followed the money to the ‘burbs. The worst part of all is that no one even showed any self awareness of what they enabled - people still blame the victims and not the adults that harmed them. No remorse, no repentance whatsoever. Just sorry they got caught and bending over backwards to blame gay people for their pedophilia and moral failings.

I will say I do credit the church for instilling in me a hate for bullies and a strong sense of Justice. Their hypocrisy on those points really drove it home for me. The fact that they are now doubling down on the reproductive hellscape they fought for years really brings it home for me. There is no God, and I am convinced the leaders agree with me because otherwise they wouldn’t behave like they do.

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