they forbid their kids to see even Terminator movies

I watched The Terminator with my nephew when he was in the single digits. He seemed to enjoy it, but did cry at the end.

My fundie niece won’t even allow her kids to see 2001 A Space Odyssey because of the monkey scene

If she’s a fundie, she probably would object to it allying with evolution rather than a rather tame scene with the monkey beating something to death. Plus, that’s the only entertaining scene in the whole movie and her kids can thank her later for not subjecting them to two hours (though it seems a lot longer) of total boringness.

I knew damn well I didn’t want to wait to get married to experience sex

It would be nice to experience it, but c’est la vie.

So, JJR, you weren’t a “True Christian™ ” ?

Also, with a science teacher for a dad (who, I definitely noticed, only came to church on major holidays like Christmas and Easter), I definitely thought the “water into wine” miracle was bullshit, and ditto the walk-on-water shtick, and the “virgin birth”; I also had grave doubts (no pun intended) about the whole resurrection stuff from the get-go.

My church was surprisingly liberal/moderate, but I still rebelled because I became aware of f*cktards like Pat Robertson at an early age (Later when an anti-abortion petition got passed around in my High School freshman physics class, of all places, I pointedly refused to sign it, which surprised the heck out of my classmates). I knew how down they were on any kind of sex before marriage, and as a horny teen I knew damn well I didn’t want to wait to get married to experience sex. Fuck THEM! was my basic attitude back then. Still is today.

Dan, It is extremely ghoulish! And especially the Catholic churches and cathedrals that have “relics” (dead bodies and body parts) of “saints” they encase in glass boxes and put on display for all to see. It’s got to be horrifying for children. Children are literally scared into believing. It’s obscene!

I’ll one up you and say that, as this post illustrates, in my dictionary, the number two definition of “worship” is “socially sanctioned child abuse.”

Fritzy, exactly! If people were displaying dead bodies, telling kids they are drinking the blood of their great Aunt Mavis or Uncle Louie, etc. the parents would be charged with emotional children abuse! I can’t understand why Xians think that Passion of the Crust is a good thing when they forbid their kids to see even Terminator movies, etc. My fundie niece won’t even allow her kids to see 2001 A Space Odyssey because of the monkey scene. Their church pastors told them it was on the “evil” list. But it’s okay to view blood and guts and torture because Passion is a movie about their religion.

I’ll one up you and say that, as this post illustrates, in my dictionary, the number two definition of “worship” is “socially sanctioned child abuse.”

If communion is considered metaphore, it’s ludicrous and vacuous; if it’s transubstantiation, it’s grusome and even more ludicrous. Either way, it’s hijacked from earlier blood cults and is wildly anachronistic in any civilized, scientific, post-enlightenment society.

As for Passion of the Crust, mentioned earlier: I hate everything that the wild popularity and success of that movie says about the American public.

So not only do they show all this gore to the kids, but then they make the kids eat the flesh and drink the blood of the gored-up dude.

Wow.