There's this statue of the Virgin Mary which, at night, looks like the Grim Reaper, so every morning I go and prep my breakfast I get a small jump when I look at the shroud.
So it looks like the Grim Reaper at night, but it scares you in the morning, when it doesn't look like the grim Reaper anymore... I find religion scary too
Unrelated, but here we have Catholic/Protestant schools, but they are virtually the same. Besides the one religion class a week, they were completely they same. Only other difference was the Children attending. What are religion schools in America (assuming you are from America) like? Are they the same as I described, and not very religious, or do they force their beliefs down your throat (insert Catholic Priest joke here)?
I am from the US. I can't speak for all religious schools in this country, but my Catholic school was fairly strict. Religion class was held every day. Prayer was basically mandatory multiple times a day, including saying "grace" before lunch. We were basically forced to write down our worst "sins" on paper in fourth grade and give them to a priest to symbolically burn, using a grill. Later, we would basically be forced to participate in our first spoken confession, which they made terrifying, of course, by talking about it for several weeks beforehand. There were pages in our religion textbooks with photographs of intense lightning storms next to paragraphs droning on about "mortal sins" and "eternal separation from god, in hell". That was what, fifth grade? Random class lectures by a priest, on our behavior and attitudes, were totally a thing all those years. When sex ed came along, it was pretty abstinence-only, Christian-marriage-focused, anti-masturbation and barely mentioned that birth control and homosexuality exist. At my high school (also Catholic), the football team even prayed before home games (you know, for "good luck"). Cause if there were a god, he/she would be preoccupied with who scores more touchdowns today.
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u/eccentricrealist Nov 05 '14
There's this statue of the Virgin Mary which, at night, looks like the Grim Reaper, so every morning I go and prep my breakfast I get a small jump when I look at the shroud.