CRS
Chandler, Arizona, United States

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"My parents were extremely religious, so..."

Thursday, August 25, 2011

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"My parents were extremely religious, so..."

Did you ever notice that whenever a person is talking about their childhood and they're describing something fundamentally fucked up or lacking in their childhood, something that made them feel different than other families they grew up with, they can just say "Well my parents were extremely religious," and you immediately understand what they're talking about without much more detail? All a person has to say is "My parents were extremely religious" and you understand that they did not have a pleasant childhood in some fashion. Even if it doesn't mean they were beat every day, it at least means that their parents were emotionally distant and didn't let them have or do modern things everyone else had.

Isn't this a horrible indictment of religion? How can religious people be proud of themselves when all someone has to do is say "My parents were extremely religious" as shorthand for "My childhood was unpleasant and/or lacking in some very fundamental way"?

Nobody ever says "My parents were extremely religious, so they were always emotionally present and never criticized me for anything that I couldn't control."
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with love from CRS @ 2:53 PM 

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