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Atheists & Agnostics

Binkie The Clown

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2. I feel "blessed" that my strict Catholic parents...

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Fri Jul 21, 2017, 01:08 PM

Jul 2017

...were understanding and supportive when, as a teen, I told them I wouldn't be going to church with them anymore because none of it made any sense to me. I think they were not surprised; I had such a long history of giving Sunday school teachers screaming fits with my inconvenient questions.

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I feel "blessed" that my strict Catholic parents... Binkie The Clown Jul 2017 #2

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