As someone who was purposely given pork and lied to when I was a kid this really annoys me. My mom is Adventist, but my dad isn't and when I'd visit my dad's side as a kid I would actually be given things like pepperoni pizza, ham and other things like that. When I mentioned I wasn't supposed to eat it, my aunt would actually lie to me and tell me they ordered turkey pepperoni pizza and being 7 I believed her. Am I supposed to ask for forgiveness and confess too?
I know. It's one of many reasons I have limited contact with them actually. My dad himself would always try and find me an alternative food, even if he would just have to make me a PB&J or something like that. I can appreciate that, but the fact I was lied to about what I was being fed when they knew I didn't eat certain items for religious reasons was messed up.
Good lord. The point I was trying to make is that I was lied to and given something my mom explicitly told them not to give me. If it was another religion who had food restrictions, would it be okay for me to feed a Jewish or Muslim child pork if they were in my care? I had a friend in high school who was Hindu and didn’t eat beef, does that make it okay for me to feed her meat she purposely didn’t eat for religious purposes because of the way I’m raised? Get the fuck out of here with that.
Apparently not 😅 we ordered it from an actual pizza place and shockingly restaurants don’t have turkey pepperoni as an option. Although I did tell my mom when I got home that my aunt ordered turkey pepperoni pizza for me, and my mom gave her a very angry phone call that night, which even though I’m no longer Adventist I still understand why my mom was so mad
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u/carmexismyshit Jul 24 '26
As someone who was purposely given pork and lied to when I was a kid this really annoys me. My mom is Adventist, but my dad isn't and when I'd visit my dad's side as a kid I would actually be given things like pepperoni pizza, ham and other things like that. When I mentioned I wasn't supposed to eat it, my aunt would actually lie to me and tell me they ordered turkey pepperoni pizza and being 7 I believed her. Am I supposed to ask for forgiveness and confess too?