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[–]Porcelain_QuetzalTabby without Ears 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

My family went from strict catholic to joining a catholic cult. While my parents themselves were actually really liberal when I was young [that changed a lot later. Now they pretty much aren't but at least they don't bother me with It], the congregation I was in definitely wasn't. Thus I had enormous fear of God and hell, which basically kept me in the closet for the better part of my life. Took me years to actually overcome that fear once i accepted that I am trans even though I had been an atheist for almost 5 years by that point.

Besides that I never had any issues with trans/gay people. I never thought they would burn in hell. Don't ask me why I thought I would. I even debated a few of the cult priests during my time in that cult. Just because I couldn't understand how a God of love can call love a sin.

I don't think that my upbringing has affected my views. It has affected my personal relationship with theses issues a lot thou, so guess the jury is still out on this one.

[–]worried19[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That must have been a difficult experience. I didn't even know there were Catholic cults. I guess there can be fundamentalists in any religion.

I never thought they would burn in hell.

Same here. I couldn't understand why a supposedly loving God would punish normal people. And I never believed in hell. I was taught it was real, but it always seemed bogus to me. I couldn't figure how God could send a perfectly nice person to hell just for being gay or Jewish or Catholic or some other religion.

[–]Porcelain_QuetzalTabby without Ears 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If you wanna do more research on them: regnum christ for the laymen and legionaries of christ for the priests. There is also a youth organization called ECYD and NET where I was active most of the time.