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Catholic (or Religious) School Bullshit
What's the stupidest and the most offensive thing you have been taught in your respective religious school?
stupidest: dinosaur bones are manufactured in China
most offensive: rape victims can't get abortions because God intended for them to be raped
stupidest: dinosaur bones are manufactured in China
most offensive: rape victims can't get abortions because God intended for them to be raped
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The worst I remember was in my religion textbook in like 5th grade. I remember a diagram that displayed various world religions and their "closeness" to God. Catholicism was at the center, closest to God, then other Christian sects formed concentric rings around Catholicism, getting progressively farther away. I believe Judaism was the farthest from God.
And also, I realize that these aren't actually Catholic teachings, but Catholic schools seem to be full of these horror stories.
A passage we are studying in my bible class right now states (if anyone cares, I'll get the Hebrew) "it is better to be commanded and to do, then to not be commanded and do"
We had a long discussion about a grammatical anomaly in the phrase "love your neighbor as yourself" (basically, the wrong Hebrew preposition was used), and determined that there is a chance that it means love Jews alone, and fuck everyone else.
This story isn't personal, but my girlfriend, who goes to catholic school, and has been posting logs on the Internet of her abstinence only sex ed class.
All that aside, I've had some amazing teachers, who taught me about philosophy, psychology, and the meaning of life in a non-religious way. Furthermore, bible teachers seem to have captured an idea that only the best English teachers are able to express, which is that every word was intentionally chosen by the author. This comes in handy when analyzing literature or poetry.
You people with ridiculously bullshitty religious groups make me sad. It's depressing that you have to put up with that.
Kinda off-topic, but if anyone knows any of the many studies showing that there is no link between non-violent porn and sex crimes, could you post a link or the name of the study? I'm going to talk to my teacher tomorrow armed with a compilation of every study I can find.
Apparently the punishment for striking your parent is stoning (or smothering, I forget which one). And the punishment for murdering your parent is smothering (or stoning. Whichever one isn't the punishment for striking your parent.) It then goes on to discuss what you should do to someone who strikes their parent to death. Seeing as you can't give them two death penalties, you have to give just one.
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But seriously, WTF? Our abstinence program basically boiled down to the person showing pics of diseased genitalia and saying "This is your dick on sex." I went to a public school.
Now, I didn't actually have sex until I was 18, so I had plenty more time to absorb that knowledge from books and the internet even if I hadn't had the class, but I'm still pretty grateful I did. And now I am even more grateful that I went to public school, even if it was in Texas.
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Any suggestions?
Now I have crazy fears about STDs. I don't know how the people in the videos they make us watch could feel like it would never happen to them. I feel like those things are out to get me, and I'm fucking triple bagging it. Girls will call me Ned, because I'm doing it Pushing Daises style.
Everything else can be nuked from orbit with broad-spectrum antibiotics and is avoided with a condom.
Thanks, though. It helps.
As far as I know on it's worth: I accidentally bought a thicker kind, and while I won't say it wasn't worth it, it definitely was better with normal ones.