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Luminous Animal

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16. It may be photoshopped but I was raised in the catholic church and was

Sun Jan 13, 2013, 02:21 AM

Jan 2013

taught that unconfessed (and thus, unrepentant) masturbation was a ticket to hell (or at least purgatory with the hope that your progeny, friends, and relatives could pray your way into heaven).

Does the church still advance the notion of purgatory? I am pretty sure they got rid of limbo which pisses me off. I spent a lot of time in my youth worrying about those unbaptised babies just floating around... just floating around.... just floating around... for eternity. I hope the pope decreed them to heaven and not hell. I was so happy, at age 6, the nuns taught us how to give an emergency baptism with our spit so that if we ever came across a dying infant we could perform the rite and save them from limbo... and, while a child, so so so disappointed that I never got to use it.

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yes, and hell yes [View all] kpete Jan 2013 OP

This is really real? How literally fucked up. n/t RKP5637 Jan 2013 #1

What a petty little god they believe in... haikugal Jan 2013 #2

My, we have a mind meld tavalon Jan 2013 #21

I wonder why they don't ask the same question about alter boys. Motown_Johnny Jan 2013 #3

I call photoshop. ellisonz Jan 2013 #4

On edit: I wonder if certain people avoid bathing for that reason. freshwest Jan 2013 #6

That's actually a myth. ellisonz Jan 2013 #7

What a relief! I'll leave that on my list of eras to visit in my time machine. freshwest Jan 2013 #8

Dentistry on the other hand was far from well... ellisonz Jan 2013 #9

You'd be surprised at the restrictions modern fundies put on themselves XemaSab Jan 2013 #12

Well, that settles it once and for all. I am totally, completely, inescapably screwed. BlueJazz Jan 2013 #5

Well, I was going to Hell anyway... bobclark86 Jan 2013 #10

scratching ? spanone Jan 2013 #11

They didn't call Satan 'Old Scratch' for nothing. We're all going to hell... freshwest Jan 2013 #13

Every sperm is sacred... Shade7M Jan 2013 #14

Where is this? CountAllVotes Jan 2013 #15

It may be photoshopped but I was raised in the catholic church and was Luminous Animal Jan 2013 #16

Does the church still advance the notion of purgatory? CountAllVotes Jan 2013 #17

Yeah. I liked the incense and Latin, too. Church is better when it smells nice and you Luminous Animal Jan 2013 #18

Mine was much different CountAllVotes Jan 2013 #20

"Church is better when it smells nice truebluegreen Jan 2013 #26

where is that? backwoodsbob Jan 2013 #19

ROFLMAO!!!!! Le Taz Hot Jan 2013 #22

Magic 8 ball sez.. Fumesucker Jan 2013 #23

But we'll cover up any truth malaise Jan 2013 #24

No but having a Priest touch me would be more fun! stultusporcos Jan 2013 #25