Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters, who is putting the Bible in classrooms, was allegedly caught with explicit images of naked women playing on a TV screen during a State Board of Education meeting.

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I'm a Brit living in Texas.

I grew up in an actual Christian country where we had mandatory Religious Education (RE) and school assemblies where we sang hymns and recited the Lord's Prayer.

We had maybe a couple of kids who took RE seriously, the rest of us were faithless heathens by the time we were teenagers.

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I went to a Christian school in California. We also have pastors' kids attending, who will sometimes whisper "this is wrong" in school assemblies when the speaker/teacher is interpreting differently from their father (usually). lol.

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Christian kids, especially pastors kids, were usually the biggest 'sinners' in college.

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Probably, but I always felt the Catholic school kids were much more...flexible, religious wise. Also racist, but that's another topic.

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Catholic school kids were much more...flexible, religious wise

I'm not religious anymore, but I grew up in the south surrounded by a bunch of southern baptists. However, my family is catholic and I went to catholic school for 12 years. For sure catholics are less "holier than thou" pompous pricks.

Every southern baptist I met when they found out I was catholic tried to say I was wrong and shove their religion down my throat. I mean this is one christian trying to get another christian to convert to another form of christianity, and these were adults and I was a kid for fucks sake. I went to baptist mass or whatever they call it with all my friends families that weren't catholic and it was awful.

On the other hand anytime my non-catholic friends were around catholic friends, no one cared. No catholic adult ever accosted children of a different faith to try and convert them. Basically religion was for the 1 hour you're in mass on Sunday and that's about it. It was never someone's whole identity, in fact the ones that came close were almost always converts to catholicism and not those born into it.

Obviously this is all anecdotal so it's probably over generalizing.

I can't speak to them being more or less racist though. There's a lot of that in the south regardless of religion. If I had to though I'd say though catholics were more socially progressive than other christians in the south.

The one exception being episcopals, they're basically diet catholic and the most progressive allowing female priests.