• nickiwest@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I recently saw a shirt for sale online that says, “I’m sorry for everything I said when I was evangelical,” and that really just about sums it up.

    • dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      Don’t beat yourself up. Seriously.

      I was able to break free early partly due to how absurd the hypocrisy became. My mother was going to hell, not because she’s a cold narcissist, but a Jew and a ‘practitioner’ of new age bullshit. And my father saw nothing at all wrong with this type of belief.

      Not to mention he was pretty racist (though in a ‘subtle’ way), while helping raise my adopted Korean sister.

      I was lucky that he and my mother were such atrociously bad examples of how to deal with others, that I vowed to never be like them.