At 8 years old I was taught in Catholic school only Catholics would go to heaven and we were the only ones that were right. This bummed me out because I had a Jewish neighbor that was cool to me and would read me classic novels. I wanted him to go to heaven.This mortified me.
If a baby wasn't baptized it was going to hell.
Purgatory. If you blessed yourself with holy water you got 500 days deducted from purgatory.
Masturbation caused blindness. The priest taught us that in 8th grade sex education class. ( I knew he was wrong. I have 20/20 vision.)
2006-09-23 22:34:07 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No wonder there are so many school shootings today. Having that bs forced on you could really screw most people up. -500 in purgatory? Is this like in prison? Time off for good behavior. Blindness comes from masturbation? I have seen allot of priests with thick glasses. Guess you get lonely being celebate......no.....there were altar boys. ........Wait one minute. You had someone who claims to have never touched a woman teaching you sex education? WTF. Babies going to hell? An all powerful, all knowing god would have been able to see into the future to know how many babies would not get baptized. Was he setting us up for failure? No free will on this one, because god should have made a species that would not sin when given free will. You schooling seems like a scene from Schindler's list. Glad you survived it. All this stuff just doesn't add up. Next time a Catholic mentions the missing link, they need to really think about this stuff.
2006-09-25 08:23:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most of us have been raised on an educational diet of redi-whip - all fluff and no stuff. When you look deeper than what is handed you, you find that very little of what you have been taught has any resemblance to the facts or truth. It is most disconcerting, but something you have to go through if you are serious about any subject, whether it be history, religion, politics, science or whatever. If you are serious, you pretty much have to toss everything you know and start over on your own. Join the club.
2006-09-24 05:49:40 · answer #2 · answered by michaelsan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope I was not taught that nor forced to go to Catholic schools. I went to public schools. I don't believe in hell nor heaven. I also have 20/20 vision and so does my husband so that's more proof that masturbation don't cause blindness that is just a myth.
2006-09-24 05:37:46 · answer #3 · answered by larrys_babygurl_4life 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I never paid 100% attention to anything
I am not catholic, I am anglican
I am not baptized
People would recite things from the bible at school and I would have no idea what they were talking about. Ignorance is bliss.
I now have green contacts and people take a second look....Life is good!
2006-09-24 07:02:19 · answer #4 · answered by peppermint_paddy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I was taught that God loved and was concerned for everyone. Then I was encouraged to read the Bible and find answers for myself. My Dad didn't think too much of preachers or priests as he had seen lots of faithless ones during WW ll in the trenches.
2006-09-24 05:39:17 · answer #5 · answered by Nora Explora 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think each religion or denomination teaches things that others would find humorous or funny.
The early missionaries to the eskimoes told them about how hell was the "lake of eternal pain and fire", until they found that all the eskimoes wanted to go there. They had to change their description of hell to someplace with eternal cold instead.
Or you could try the Book of Mormon, where you are told that the Native Americans spoke and wrote in Egyptian, and that Christ visited them 2000 years before his birth.
2006-09-24 05:39:06 · answer #6 · answered by da_lizard_of_ozz 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The catholic cult is completely facked up.
My parents were told they would go to hell if their kids didn't grow up to be cultists. I stopped talking to them because any time I try to call or visit, that's their only topic of conversation, the fact that I'm an atheist.
They are in hell _now_ while alive because they're wasting time and emotion of something pointless.
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2006-09-24 05:38:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Always was wondering how priests are managing to make water to be Holy... Black Magic?
Actually priests are exist to tell such staff you have mentioned, to be able to control and terrify people
2006-09-24 05:37:45 · answer #8 · answered by Suomi 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They still teach this, but I don't call it teaching. It is manipulation via terroristic threats. The one that really hits home with me is God is watching everything you do and when you f**k up he is going to kill you and send you straight to hell but, and here's the kicker, HE LOVES YOU. Never, ever understood anyone who could subscribe to this philosophy. It takes a special kind of stupid to believe this.. ....Peace.
2006-09-24 05:55:12 · answer #9 · answered by -Tequila17 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wasn't taught religion; but, when I studied the Baha'i Faith, I learned stuff like this:
Part One: ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE PROPHETS IN THE EVOLUTION OF HUMANITY
1: NATURE IS GOVERNED BY ONE UNIVERSAL LAW
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Nature is that condition, that reality, which in appearance consists in life and death, or, in other words, in the composition and decomposition of all things.
This Nature is subjected to an absolute organization, to determined laws, to a complete order and a finished design, from which it will never depart—to such a degree, indeed, that if you look carefully and with keen sight, from the smallest invisible atom up to such large bodies of the world of existence as the globe of the sun or the other great stars and luminous spheres, whether you regard their arrangement, their composition, their form or their movement, you will find that all are in the highest degree of organization and are under one law from which they will never depart.
But when you look at Nature itself, you see that it has no intelligence, no will. For instance, the nature of fire is to burn; it burns without will or intelligence. The nature of water is fluidity; it flows without will or intelligence. The nature of the sun is radiance; it shines without will or intelligence. The nature of vapor is to ascend; it ascends without will or intelligence. Thus it is clear that the natural movements of all things are compelled; there are no voluntary movements except those of animals and, above all, those of man. Man is able to resist and to oppose Nature because he discovers the constitution of things, and through this he commands the forces of Nature; all the inventions he has made are due to his discovery of the constitution 4 of things. For example, he invented the telegraph, which is the means of communication between the East and the West. It is evident, then, that man rules over Nature.
Now, when you behold in existence such organizations, arrangements and laws, can you say that all these are the effect of Nature, though Nature has neither intelligence nor perception? If not, it becomes evident that this Nature, which has neither perception nor intelligence, is in the grasp of Almighty God, Who is the Ruler of the world of Nature; whatever He wishes, He causes Nature to manifest.
One of the things which has appeared in the world of existence, and which is one of the requirements of Nature, is human life. Considered from this point of view man is the branch; nature is the root. Then can the will and the intelligence, and the perfections which exist in the branch, be absent in the root?
It is said that Nature in its own essence is in the grasp of the power of God, Who is the Eternal Almighty One: He holds Nature within accurate regulations and laws, and rules over it. 1
1. On the idea of God, cf. “The Divinity Can Only Be Comprehended through the Divine Manifestations,” p. 146; and “Man’s Knowledge of God,” p. 220.
The reader will there see that the Bahá’à Faith has not an anthropomorphic conception of God, and that if it employs a customary terminology, it is careful to explain its symbolic meaning. [ Back To Reference]
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2006-09-24 05:46:55 · answer #10 · answered by GypsyGr-ranny 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋