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Relax, Its not an attack upon catholics.
Navane was obviously trying to be catholic (little c) in her post, but it seems people are looking to get offended.
Where I grew up I heard that Catholics werent Christians. I also heard that presbyterians and everyone else who wasnt a baptist wasnt a christian. In my hometown there were two groups that were the self described 'christians'; the baptists and the pentocostials. They were the professional christians in my hometown and made a profession of making everyone else feel like crap if you werent a part of their 'sect'. The kids carried bibles to class. If ya wanna talk about being offended, you should have gone to my high school, where the baptists (who ran the town) had MANDATORY assemblies at my high school where the keynote speaker was the revival keynote and we (the entire student body) were all made to go and publically told we were gonna burn in hell if we didnt repent and accept jesus as our savior. Yeah the looser principal, (Daniel Coward, who i think is now the principal at Amarillo High School- feel free to look it up and harass him, cause I have NO PROBLEM with it....) not only sanctioned this, but sent the non christian kids to detention for not going - cause hes a big ole fundamentalist baptist too. So if the five (outta 1500) buddist kids and 2 jewish kids didnt wanna go get lectured on jesus for 3 hours then they got detention and 45 minuts less lunch than the rest of us. Yeah, thats the religious intolerance I had to endure, so no one needs to lecture on here about being offended. Cause in my small ass town, if you raised hell, you'd get arrested for whatever, like for not loving jesus enough and shit. Again, cause the baptists ran the town. (Yeah, the downside of living in Texas. It had civil suit written all over it, but that was back in the day before people thought of that shit. Hell, I woulld entered into a suit. There was also a gay kid who got the shit beat outta him so hard he had to drink outta a straw for the rest of our three years in HS. Nothing happened. Today, the school woullda paid about 13.2 million dollars for knowing he was gay and not protecting him.)
Fuck, I am just lucky I escaped there and can read.
Theres hella bigger issues to get all worked up about and this isnt one. its a regional thing and let is leave it be. Someones readiness to be offended got someone else upset and hurt.
It wasnt intentional.. Lets all understnd we dont all live in greater PA or MT wherever and MOVE ON.
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