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What were you told about other religions when you were a child?

yeah, my parents answered my questions and made me feel safe to ask more questions. one of my goals is to do the same for my kiddo.
 
Rumpel said:
What were you told about other religions when you were a child?

Maybe some old wives' tales?
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I went to catholic school. There were no other religions. Now that I've grown up into my brain, I don't believe in a god/s, at all. Not even Zeus.
 
bongsaway said:
I went to catholic school. There were no other religions. Now that I've grown up into my brain, I don't believe in a god/s, at all. Not even Zeus.
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Especially not Zeus.
 
Rumpel said:
What were you told about other religions when you were a child?

Maybe some old wives' tales?
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Nothing. The focus was on each of us as children of God. No hate, no bad-mouthing others or the beliefs of others. In short, it wasn't like Atheist Socialist School. :)
 
I was never told anything, but my mother was told "not to play with the Catholic kids", and my MIL was told "not to play with the Protestant kids". (both are older Boomers)
 
bongsaway said:
I went to catholic school. There were no other religions. Now that I've grown up into my brain, I don't believe in a god/s, at all. Not even Zeus.
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I don't see that one would find the answers in a bong.
 
When I grew up, there was one religion. You got it in assembly at "secular" school. We had a Christmas play, and I even won Bible prizes, though I never went to Sunday school or church. Except of course for the outings and parties and later, discos in the halls of the various denominations.
There were also Catholics, an "inferior" religion, whose practitioners lived parallel lives to us in the same community. Some even went to our schools, where they were excused the RE study period. I also envied my Catholic pal's ability to get his sin slate wiped clean every week as I waited outside the chapel for him. I assumed I would meet some bean-counting angel with a very long list when I died.
Other more "exotic" religions were never really discussed per se, though they were mentioned in passing in history or geography classes as something foreigners believed.
It's amazing how none of it stuck really, I grew up in an area stuffed with churches, half a mile from Holy Corner!

Holy Corner - Wikipedia
 
That white American Christians were evil murderous people and that they all should be killed.
 
Manc Skipper said:
When I grew up, there was one religion. You got it in assembly at "secular" school. We had a Christmas play, and I even won Bible prizes, though I never went to Sunday school or church. Except of course for the outings and parties and later, discos in the halls of the various denominations.
There were also Catholics, an "inferior" religion, whose practitioners lived parallel lives to us in the same community. Some even went to our schools, where they were excused the RE study period. I also envied my Catholic pal's ability to get his sin slate wiped clean every week as I waited outside the chapel for him. I assumed I would meet some bean-counting angel with a very long list when I died.
Other more "exotic" religions were never really discussed per se, though they were mentioned in passing in history or geography classes as something foreigners believed.
It's amazing how none of it stuck really, I grew up in an area stuffed with churches, half a mile from Holy Corner!

Holy Corner - Wikipedia
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Yep, Saturday was the best part of being a Catholic kid!


 
I was told the usual lies...everyone good goes to heaven, everyone bad burns forever...the trinity...the immortal soul...the earth is going to be destroyed...everything that happens is God's will because He sees all, knows all, and controls everything...if good things happen, it is God's will, if bad things happen, it is God's will...all the usual lies...
 
My family wasn't religious and never talked religion at home. I remember one day when I was in 9th grade a fight almost broke out in a classroom. Somebody told me later it was because one kid made a comment about Jews around a Jewish kid. This happened in the Deep South of the US and was my first knowledge of anti-Semitism.
 
Rumpel said:
What were you told about other religions when you were a child?

Maybe some old wives' tales?
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I was raised hardcore Catholic:

- The Jews killed Christ
- Protestants deny the Pope
- The Catholic Church is the true Church
 
I was raised by a single parent who didn't attend church but sent us off to Baptist Sunday school and Vacation Bible School for a break. My MIL; however, still believes that Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses are cults. She's a Southern Baptist Sunday school teacher and neither of her children are religious.
 
beancounter said:
I was never told anything, but my mother was told "not to play with the Catholic kids", and my MIL was told "not to play with the Protestant kids". (both are older Boomers)
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Sounds familiar, somehow ....

Not that I was told things like that, but I have heard from others that they were told things like that.
 
Some Protestant kids were told by their Moms, that ALL Catholics were bad people who are false and tell lies.
And some of those kids believe that to this day and until their old age.
 
My parents were secular (they probably would have said atheist if asked), so religion simply wasn't a topic of discussion at home.

However, I went to a public (secular) elementary school which was beside a catholic school. In my 6 years there we had exactly zero interaction with each other. Not so much as one soccer game. Nothing good or bad was ever said about them. It was as though they simply weren't there.
 
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