Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education

Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by brandonmenc on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @08:03PM (#38092990)

Well I was raised Catholic and went to Catholic school all the way up and through high school, decided I was a hardcore atheist around 8th grade (long since pure agnostic btw), butted heads and debated constantly in Theology class, and I disagree with you.

Very few of my Catholic friends and family seem to be motivated by fear, and even at my most annoying and confrontational no one ever tried to “scare” me back into believing.

ymmv, of course.

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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by ragestorm on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @09:17PM (#38093484)

"Catholic Guilt" is a stereotype for a reason. The scare is: a) not going to church and being a social outcast, b) duty to go to church, to pray every day, or go to hell.

Is not limited to Catholicism but religion in general, but the stereotype is there for a reason. Maybe the teachings? Maybe anecdotally your group were outliers?

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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by MisterBastahrd on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @10:58PM (#38094116)

Every single Catholic I know is religiously motivated by fear, and I know literally hundreds. And the older they get, the worse it gets, especially after they lose a parent.

All trying to buy that time away from hell and purgatory and flooding the living crap out of my social media feeds with nonsensical prayers to saints and statues. And they are utterly hypocritical with their proselytizing too. They want to be free to spam that nonsense but post something critical or contradictory and they lose their fucking minds.

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