amaranth24
Ya Yellow Rat Bastid!!!
Missing mass a mortal sin? And actually mentioning Hell? Man, you must be ancient! In what epoch were you born?!
I was born and raised post Vatican II, which means I never heard about hell except in Tom and Jerry cartoons, when the Devil Dog was trying to pitchfork Tom into his cauldron for being so mean to Jerry!
Post-Vatican II meant boring sermons on just being good people and helping out at the soup kitchen (where the number of servers always outnumbered the attendees by six to one).
Jurched
I, unfortunately went to Catholic school from grades K-11 (elementary school from 79'-86'). The nun's we had were old school (real old school), and they're the one's that told us if we missed mass it was considered "Mortal Sin", and if we died with "Mortal Sin" on our souls, then we would go to hell. The only way to get rid of mortal sin was to go to confession. Obviously, after growing up, I realized that those old, crabby ass nun's were full shit. We used to get buzz cuts so the nun's would quit pulling our hair, so they started yanking us by the ties. I'm still looking for the t-shirt "Catholic School Survivor". After my experience with Catholic Schools, I will never send my kids to a Catholic School.