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I grew up around a lot of those religious types that it's specifically pointed at. It feels true to life in my experience ngl.
Seconded. I lost my shit at that scene in S01E05 when Ezekiel did the televangelist youth pastor bit because it was entirely too accurate. It was just missing "Our God is an Awesome God" and the Treatler Youth promising you free pizza and then you get there and there's no free pizza.
all it takes is reading those words and it instantly starts up in my head, even though it's been almost 25 years since I had to hear it in person
Bottom line, if your best friend introduces you to a dude named Zander or Parrish or whatever and said dude immediately starts freaking out and claiming that your Magic: The Gathering Revised Edition Pestilence card burned his hand with the power of Satan, and oh by the way would you like to come to our study group where we play ping pong and eat pizza, THERE IS NO PIZZA. THE PIZZA IS A LIE.
...I'm still pissed off at that weirdo cult for taking my friend away from me. It's hard to take someone seriously after you've seen him -- and a room full of other teenagers -- pretend to speak in tongues for half an hour while a keyboard player holds a drone chord in a shitty P&W song.
I am thankful I grew up Jewish. The worst it gets is "our G-d is a mid g-d, but hey it's the one we got?"
I grew up Catholic and my family was so racist that when I thought Judas was the main figure in Judaism (like how "Christ" is the Main Character in "Christianity"), nobody corrected me for like 3 or 4 years.
It's almost right---Judas is a romanization of Judah which is a common name because Judah is the patriarch of one of the most important tribes of Judeah and the namesake of Judaism. But that's actually kind of charming that you thought Judaism was named for the Christian figure of Judas!
I'm glad you were able to overcome your reactionary upbringing. That takes a lot of work and courage.
I mean, I was 5 at the time
Pattern recognition and its consequences
oh that's even more understandable lol
That’s fair, it’s more that they’re less the focus of the cultural zeitgeist, and Republican Party and their media arms are less focused on them currently like they were around 2000-2008. It makes it feel a bit dated in some ways. I don’t really mind it, it does give it kind of a cool vibe because it feels like a throwback to 2006, while most of the show being very much in the present. The show feels like current me and teenager me brainstorming a show and that’s not really a bad thing. As I said I did enjoy it, and think the first few seasons are great, more got tired of it over time than anything.