Wed Jan 17 16:55:57 2024 UTC by CrazyPaya234
On an alt because my brother knows about my main, and I don’t want this attention to come towards my parents and make it to my grandparents [somehow]
I never had a relationship with my grandparents from either side of my family. On my father’s side, they died before I was born, and on my mother’s I barely ever saw them. And when I did, it seemed as though they had no intensions of speaking or interacting with me. I was at home for the longer weekend because my parents needed help cleaning out the attic, and in one of the old boxes there was a old picture of my grandmother and my mom when she was younger. The picture got me thinking about why my mother’s grandparents always had acted so strange around me, as if they were avoiding me entirely. I brought the subject up to my mother while we were cleaning up the attic, and she told me why. She told me that my grandparents had always been hyper-religious, specifically catholic. This came as no surprise as I had deduced such from various mannerisms they had shown in the little time I had meet them. She finally said that the reason my grandparents didn’t want to be around me was because I was left handed.
WHAT.
She explained further that the left-hand had been interpreted as the devil’s hand as a catholic superstition. Because of this, my grandparents had always been wary of me, which grew out to them avoiding having a relationship with me entirely. I’m at a loss for words as to how these insane traditions continue to be prevalent in religious circles, especially in older individuals. It saddens me that despite how Christians often claim to be a welcoming community to all people, that many exclusive and elitist traditions continue to be practiced. I hope as time goes on, we open our eyes to realize how absolutely batshit insane these traditions, and maybe religions as a whole, really are.
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Cool. I can scare Catholics.
My older brother and I are my Mom’s Mom’s only grandsons (the rest of the grand babies are all girls), she shunned my brother because he is a lefty, she shunned the granddaughters because they’re not male, and then there’s me being her pride and joy as a tall well-educated right handed male who shunned her for being such a judgemental religious cunt of a woman.
Edit: In addition, I’m sorry you’ve had to deal with this. Nobody should be treated so poorly by their grandparents because of a crippling birth defect like being born left-handed 😉.
she shunned the granddaughters because they’re not male
Neither is she.
I’m not sure logic played a big part in how she lived her life.
Faith can be a beautiful thing. We all need something to believe in… However, “religion” is toxic and will tear down everything that can bring you joy in service of at best an unprovable hypothesis, and at worst a delusion.
My grandmother would beat my mother with a ruler if she tried to write left handed. It scarred her for life.
Your grandparents are idiots, and I say this as a theistic Christian that believes in the existence of the devil.
My uncle was forced to write with his right hand for the same stupid reason. Stupid catholics.
“By excluding all of these groups we’re being extra inclusive to those we DO tolerate!”
I’m a Christian (Seventh Day Adventist, found this post by sorting by local-active) and yeah their grandparents are going on about some rubbish there. “Left-handed people are bad”/“The left hand is the devil’s hand” is not Biblical in any way, shape, or form.
the overwhelming majority of the hateful, bigoted shit these people believe is not biblical.
Cause they don’t want to be biblical. They don’t want to be christian. They want to be hateful assholes with a self gratifying justification… and whats more wonderful self gratifying justification than the power of religion.
My mother was disfellowshipped from our Kingdom Hall, because my father committed adultery. The lesson is, don’t expect even a cunt-hair’s worth of logic from religious institutions.
Sad to say I know enough about religious fuckery to know why it makes sense in their mind.
Men can’t be expected to control their urges. So its the wife’s responsibility to keep the husband sexually sated so he doesn’t think about cheating. Therefore, its her fault.
Truely disgusting and unfair :/
Had a teacher in school with fucked up looking hands writing. It was because she was left handed, and forced to learn various skills in school with her right hand
Sinister and proud of it!
why’s he raising his right fist?
Because he’s using his dominant hand to hold the sign.
Easy, left handed sign
Because he’s left-handed and so his right is the free one after he instinctively picked up the sign with his left?
He’s an evangelical Protestant, not a Catholic.
Yeah, but the point is the Lefty solidarity, not his religion.
Seriously if your brother finds out that’s not on you or your mum. That’s 100% your grandparents’ fault.
I remember my grandma being weirded out a little bit that my daughter is a lefty
And my grandma likes baseball, she should know better
Yeah, I’ve been rather rose-eyed about Catholicism in childhood because of part of my family being in identity that, but not in such things.
Now I know better.
Still, I think the right behavior in Catholic ethics would be for them to accept that as God’s judgement?.. I mean, nobody expects Christians to follow Christian ethics, that’d be stupid.
When I was in high school we had a vice principle who referred to weed as “left handed cigarettes” lol
