When I moved to Georgia one of my moms bougie coworkers convinced her to put me and my brother in a Christian school. Now, my family was never particularly religious. Up until 7 years old, I only remember ever stepping foot in a church once. Outside of grace before dinner and prayers before sleep, my parents never stressed religion in the house and when we finally did start going to church regularly it was only for the community (when we lived in NY one of my moms coworkers invited her to her church and what really solidified her there was how much they supported us when she had cancer). I can count on one hand how many times my father went to church with us
But to go back to the relevant part, again we move to Georgia when I was in 6th grade and I get put in a Christian school and yo...the goofy ass shyt I saw there, I'm pretty sure set my atheism in motion. I was never completely convinced of religion even as a kid anyway and always viewed the Bible stories as
so now seeing them shyts taught as actual curriculum had me all confused. Even worse, they mixed it into other subjects. The moment I knew something was off and I needed to get the fukk outta there was when I was reading the science textbook and they were talking about the oxygen levels in the atmosphere. Everything seemed normal, until "God has blessed us with the exact amount of oxygen we need to live safely"
Bruh
even at a 11, I knew religion and science didn't mix. Thank God we wound up only spending a semester in that stupid ass school, since we moved to a better area of Georgia where the public school was one of the best in the state, cuz I was losing my mind there. I was one of only three brehs on my grade too