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When I was a "Catholic" kid. We didn't have "Sunday school" we had CCD(Confraternity of Christian Doctrine), and it was on Saturdays.

I'm sure I was very annoying. A lot of biblical stuff did not make any sense to me, and I tend to keep asking until I get answers that make sense.
 
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I grew up Lutheran and regularly attended Sunday School. It was actually pretty fun for the most part. We were separated out by school grade. The younger grades often had the teacher reading Bible stories and we did arts and crafts projects, while those of us in grades 7-12 engaged in Bible discussions. I remember SS being a lot less formal than regular school.
 

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The closest thing I did was watching movies in a church side room on Sundays. I think it was free. Tintin, Astherix, etc.
 
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The closest thing I did was watching movies in a church side room on Sundays. I think it was free. Tintin, Astherix, etc.
Sounds very public library-adjacent.
 

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Well, it was the (catholic) church members who offered it, but yes, they do things like that at the library.
 

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My parents were "Christian" but we never did church when I was little-little. As a tween I went to a confirmation class at my grandmother's Lutheran church and that lasted like a year or so until I was confirmed. It was mostly just learning about the Gospels and the Apostle's Creed but there was very little reading of the actual Bible, it was mostly a supplemental book just for the class and honestly I think the only OT material we went over at all was the 10 commandments. I knew about the more kid-friendly "Bible stories" like the creation and Noah's ark and suchlike, but I guess since I didn't have parents or a church community hammering them into me as literal absolute fact that was under attack by Bad People I internalized them as folk tales more than any thing else.

Ironically it was Jesus' talks about inclusiveness and loving your neighbor (meaning "everyone") that kept me soured on any kind of fundamentalist influences growing up. But I considered myself Christian through my teens and when an aggressive fundy church in town started a "Bible club" in my high school, being open minded and all that I went to their first meeting. Their very first meeting, they were trying to encourage this one kid to "speak in tongues", and I was instantly like "nope". I didn't speak up or leave immediately because I didn't want to make a deal out of it, but I kind of filtered my way out and never went back after that.
 
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Ironically it was Jesus' talks about inclusiveness and loving your neighbor (meaning "everyone") that kept me soured on any kind of fundamentalist influences growing up. But I considered myself Christian through my teens and when an aggressive fundy church in town started a "Bible club" in my high school, being open minded and all that I went to their first meeting. Their very first meeting, they were trying to encourage this one kid to "speak in tongues", and I was instantly like "nope". I didn't speak up or leave immediately because I didn't want to make a deal out of it, but I kind of filtered my way out and never went back after that.
I went to a Pentecostal church once where they decided I should get "slain in the spirit." I had one person behind me pulling and one in front pushing. One of them said, "Don't fight God!" I said, "I'm not fighting God, I'm fighting you."
 
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I was raised Unitarian (with some dubious Catholic teachings on the side so I could take Holy Communion in Mexico, so my grandparents would stop nagging my mother). I remember the children's "Christman pageant" for the adults, where we explained the role of Zoroastrianism and other pagan religions in early Christian mythology. For Sunday School we read myths from around the world, and later on we went on field trips to other congregations of different faiths. I vaguely remember being impressed with the Quakers and less than impressed by the Pentecostal church.
 

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ChatGPT identifies the man sitting next to Charles, wearing the dark glasses, as President Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania. Robert Mugabe is next to him, wearing clear glasses. It says the man between them is Meles Zenawi , President of Ethiopia. I wondered if the woman in the hat was Margaret Thatcher but ChatGPT says not, because in 2005 her failing health meant she could no longer attend public events.
 
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If they can keep the drinking to a minimum, I'm betting they can get through it.
"attendees are limited to a small glass of Jesus Blood (14% alcohol)"
 

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Nixon was a Quaker. :hellokitty:
Nixon's parents were Quakers. Nixon joined the military when he was an adult, which suggests he was not. 🤓
 
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I have to admit, I know next to nothing about Quakers. I think I was confusing them with the Amish and Mennonites, and recently, I read something about how they treated animals. I think it had to do with a rescued horse video I saw. Anyway, I’m glad I looked it up just now because of your posts. I needed to set it all straight once and for all. Really interesting.
 
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I mean, all the bad stuff he did was also when he was an adult...
 

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I mean, all the bad stuff he did was also when he was an adult...
I can't say for sure what he got up to as a kid.

I do know he called his Quaker mother a saint, and many believe her influence on him was intense. And yet...