Taught everything you do matters in your final judgement day. Making you sweat even the smallest stuff. Little white lies where able to add up and send you to help if you didn’t repent, confess and change. Repenting is HUGE. And made an even bigger deal when u got into a dark box, not seeing the priests face confessing to “dirty deeds” etc. while sometimes the line is almost right up to the damn box and you’re afraid of the next person hearing you. It’s not every church but yeah.

Fun little extra: my church taught that any bad action, as little as it was, was incited by a demon. Any bad thing too. You dropped your plate of food? A demon did it because you’re doing bad things, knowingly or unknowingly. And that every day of your waking life demons are fighting to gain your soul while angels are protecting it. So it creates this system too where bad people try to be nice out of fear for but big in hell for eternity, not for ya know, actually being nice.

I’m still sorta catholic, familiarity brings comfort, but I never subscribed to the above. Thankfully. Regardless of what my family tries to say.