#i eventually learned what religion was bc a friend of mine in third grade talked about god and such

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neither of my parents are religious, and i know this sounds stupid, but i didn't even know what religion was until i was, like, eight. but i do remember going to a church day camp bc my mother wanted some time to herself, and she knew some of the people running it. so. she sent me and my sister to go do fun crafts and have a small picnic at the church. and then they sat us down for "story time." and they started talking about this creation story, and how the earth was made, and how humans came about. and i, a little kid, having no concept of religion at the time, excitedly asked "when do the dinosaurs come in?"

Being raised by areligious jews with 0 exposure to christianity outside pop culture is so fun. One time I asked my ex-catholic friend why a picture of jesus had a bristle crown and she looked at me like I was insane. One time I heard someone mention the "lance of longinus" and responded, word for word, "Like from Evangelion?" One time during a history lesson my professor described an important monk and scholar as "Dominican" and I spent the rest of class super confused and hung up on it because I was very sure that the Dominican Republic didn't meaningfully exist as an entity back then, maybe she meant he was a native Taino or something but that's a weird way to say that and I'm pretty sure this was pre- European contact? Really fucks people up when they realize I genuinely have no idea.