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In reply to the discussion: The events that made you realize America is f'ing stupid? [View all]rurallib
(62,514 posts)Hell the next morning - I was raised Catholic. I was hungry and ate the meat without thinking. My next door neighbor asked me about it or I never would have known. So I sweated death all night and spending eternity in torture because of a mindless act.
But instead I woke up the next day and went to work as I was expected to. During the day I began to realize how much the church was lying to me every day when I went to school and their religion class daily.
The realization of the constant lying then expanded to start paying attention to what my parents said and did. Then I started to question what the government was saying. Since this was the time that the anti-Vietnam war protests (1964) were starting so there was a lot to question. It all snowballed into an all out distrust of authority from that point.