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One of my wife's friends (not mine, I don't really like them, especially the wife because she's the stereotype of a Catholic wife and mother like Jesus ...to a 't'...and I get the impression that behind closed doors, the husband takes the Irish-Catholic Husband role very seriously) sends their kids to Catholic school.
Their oldest, though, is awesome. Wicked smart kid, awesome imagination. I think he may be a bit on the spectrum. The type of kid that, at a party, will have more fun talking to the parents than playing with the kids.
Anyway I feel bad for this kid because despite being super smart and having an awesome imagination, these great conversations get punctuated by Catholic fables and he treats that as equal fact.
I really want to be a part of this kids eventual atheist-awakening. It's bound to happen, he's far too logical and skeptical. But I really worry about how this kid will fare if it doesn't, and what it will mean for his family ties when it does.
I went to Catholic school and recently saw like eight former classmates at a friend’s wedding. The bride is Catholic, but none of the rest of us are. I was an out atheist in school, but the rest of them were ostensibly religious then (~15 years ago). Half of us are now queer and fucking nobody supports jd Vance. Even the catholic one isn’t a religious fanatic. She keeps her faith mostly private and married a divorced father.
This kid will probably also become less religious over time (or suddenly). I think Catholicism is a little easier to break free from than Lutheranism or Episcopalianism, because of transubstantiation. Once he realizes that people expect him to literally think the host is Jesus’ actual, real, material flesh, it’s kind of hard to believe it.
I stopped believing in god at four years old because I realized everyone else in my Sunday school class believed the story about Jonah and the whale. Catholics often give the Old Testament a little wiggle room, but transubstantiation is absolutely core to Catholicism.