• Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
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      11 months ago

      The church I was dragged to as a child had several “teachers” who drove it into us year after year all about how there will be people coming to the church to kill everyone who doesn’t say they hate God. Then asked us who would deny God to “cling to your sinful flesh”.

      I got in trouble and had to stop going to their “lessons” because saying “yeah I’d do it so I can live another day and fight back” was not the answer they were looking for.

      They really do love painting that target on their forehead and pretend it’s real and that someone else put it there.

  • agoramachina@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Yeesh. This is why I started self-harming as a very young child. I was trying to train myself to bear as much pain as possible. We were told that we were living in the End Times and that any day now, the evil god-haters would be busting down our doors forcing us to recant our faith under threat of torture. I wanted to get used to burning alive so that I would be strong enough to avoid the fires of hell.

    Hooray Christian Fundamentalism!

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    1 year ago

    Well this is incredibly likely, I’ve seen so many hate crimes against Catholics in the US /s

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    1 year ago

    If it was with Scientology instead of nondescript Christianity, everyone would agree this is cult-like behavior…