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Mike Dulak grew up Catholic in Southern California, but by his teen years, he began skipping Mass and driving straight to the shore to play guitar, watch the waves and enjoy the beauty of the morning. “And it felt more spiritual than any time I set foot in a church,” he recalled.

Nothing has changed that view in the ensuing decades.

“Most religions are there to control people and get money from them,” said Dulak, now 76, of Rocheport, Missouri. He also cited sex abuse scandals in Catholic and Southern Baptist churches. “I can’t buy into that,” he said.

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[–] Smacks@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I don't mind religion, it's the crazies that use their religion to push hate that are the problem.

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[–] protovack@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

is this the part where twenty somethings on the internet gather to exclaim loudly "I hate hypocrites too"?

then you should love jesus, because he hated religious hypocrites just as much as you do. In fact, it was those hypocrites who killed him.

If jesus returned today, he would be killed at a MAGA rally, probably.

i'm a christian in SPITE of the church, not because of it.

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[–] nullPointer@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

most are just pedophile rings anyway.

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Religion is fine, it's religious people using it to abuse others that I really don't care for.

[–] TechyDad@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

One of my favorite quotes from Farscape. (For reference, this is a human teenager interviewing a three eyed old lady alien that's part mystic and part crazy old lady.)

Bobby: Do religions hate each other where you come from?

Noranti: Oh, good heavens, no. Religions are grand, lofty ideas. Religious followers, now that's another story.

Bobby: Wars.

Noranti: Unspeakable.

Bobby: So we're not so different.

Noranti: That's nothing to be proud of.

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[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

I don't think people are interested in going to a place every Sunday and hearing about how they're going to hell.

[–] Clown_Tempura@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

The time for organized religion to clean house and save themselves from being taken over by fascist child rapists is long past. Sucks to suck. Would be a silver lining in a sea of shit if I saw religion at least in America wither away and die in my lifetime.

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