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[quote=Anonymous]I was raised Catholic, going to CCD and all the sacraments. My parents weren’t very devout Catholics, but we went to church and many of our extended family celebrations were centered around religious rites and holidays. I never felt any joy or comfort in the church, always a cold, judgmental vibe. My friends loved their other Christian faith churches, did soup kitchens and other things to serve the less fortunate, and attended fun youth camps, and my church never did anything charitable that wasn’t targeted 100% at itself. The vibe was definitely more “be right,” and less “do right”.

I don’t think anything my parents could have done would have changed me leaving. I suspect I inherited the non-believer gene from my dad and was never going to last long in any genuine way in any faith. But maybe if that particular church they made me attend wasn’t so nasty, I’d have a better view of the institution as a whole and perhaps a more charitable view of its many failings.

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