You have gone to very different churches than I grew up in. The secular groups I was in at public school, college, and then as an adult were all MUCH more accepting and diverse than the churches I was in as a kid, and the private school I went to for the first 9 years of my education.
"If you stay Catholic you're going to hell" was a memorable thing one of my teachers told one of my classmates...
They really didn't like me much when I started asking questions they didn't have answers for other than "you just have to have faith," either.
No doubt. If it were not for one teacher who was clearly trained in Catholic apologetics in middle school, I don't think i would have remained Catholic. The church does a terrible job of catechesis, which is a shame, since it's spent a lot of time thinking about it.
"If you stay Catholic you're going to hell" was a memorable thing one of my teachers told one of my classmates...
They really didn't like me much when I started asking questions they didn't have answers for other than "you just have to have faith," either.
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