I grew up Catholic. I found that the Catholic church for me was not a good fit, having been told that basically everything I did wrong was my ticket straight to damnation. Got a tattoo? Going to hell. Ears pierced. Must be a sin. Boys...well, let me tell you, I can feel the flames at my toes as we speak. By the time I was a teenager, I knew that I did not belong in a church that, in my opinion, made God seem like a punisher and treated women as inferior beings. I decided not to get confirmed, … [Read more...]
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