Lazy Catholics who act with authority Have always annoyed me.
As a kid I had to go to church 3 days a week on top of Sunday school every Sunday, and on aundays I had to fast until after Sunday school while my parents and grandparents went to breakfast immediately after mass, and my family never ate or served lunch, so I was basically starved until 8pm on Sundays all in the name of god. Oh and I had to get the priest’s autograph on the Sunday newsletter every single Sunday to prove I was actually at mass or the Sunday school teacher would be angry. And all my grandma would watch on the tv until her death was the EWTN Catholic channel, so constant rosary and mass on tv blasting through the thin walls.
Best believe I have read that stupid book cover to cover multiple times and in multiple different translations. And there was never a moment, even as a small child, where I thought any of it was real. For fucks sake, even my regular middle school made us study Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Confucianism during social studies. All of this before having to deal with all the annoying internet atheists in the 2010s.