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Aristus

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6. Yeah. If you move anywhere in the South, outside of the big cities (and even there, sometimes, maybe), the first thing
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 04:14 PM
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your new neighbors will ask you is where you go to church. And if you don't go to church, social sanctions will result.

Back when I was still just a dumbass Southern boy, we were getting ready for church one Sunday morning, when the neighbor kid from across the street came over and asked us to play. I chided him, very self-righteously, for not going to church. I felt awful about it in the years that followed. I'm an atheist now. I looked up our old neighbor kid on Facebook a few years ago, and he had become a conservative Mormon. It kills me a little.

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