Seriously though, this is fucking stupid. I can't believe I'm saying this but I don't think they were justified in mob beating this US soldier. Stay within your race and birth year is the message we'll all be getting soon, then? Is anti-age gap really a common thing now among younger people?

I would figure maybe this was caused in part by conservative Catholic anti-sex brainworms and young guys feeling ownership of women their age and jealous that their classmates are dating older guys instead of being their Catholic trad wife. Hook up with a guy a few years older and we'll lynch his ass? That's the message.

[–] someone@hexbear.net 38 points 6 months ago (2 children)

When I was a young man I thought I was "raised Catholic" because my Catholic parents took me and my siblings to church weekly until we were each 18. But the older I got, the more I realized how fantastic they were at shielding me and my siblings from Catholic brainworms, after seeing what actually happens to the actual "raised Catholic" victims.

[–] courier8377@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Both are being raised catholic, just in different ways. Conservative catholics don't have a monopoly on the labels of the religion, but it sure seems like it could slide that way in the general public perception :/

[–] someone@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

Thinking back on it I realize how much they trusted me and my siblings to make our own decisions on religion. They never brought up religion in the home. They just brought us to church (which was definitely more of a social-pressure small-town thing in those days), let us listen, and think about it all ourselves.

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