• cabron_offsets@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I experienced this first hand and it was stunting, if not traumatic. I came to peace with myself for being atheist only in my 20s.

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      4 months ago

      I have trauma from this, but from the other end. So many stunted people trying to force insanity on me as if it were logic. For the longest time I thought I was crazy or broken for not being able to make some connection they were. Turns out, there’s no connections. Just gut feeling.

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      4 months ago

      My wife only got it a little firsthand because her family is evangelical, but her mother is one of the kindest, most accepting, most tolerant people I’ve ever met. Despite that, and despite being an atheist since she was a teenager, she still has dreams about going to hell in her mid-40s.