These Christian values seem to have seeped in so deeply though. I’m not sure most people even recognise them. I grew up with non-religious hippie-boomer parents and it certainly didn’t stop me internalising all sorts of judgement.
Even some of the monastics I live with who grew up in Malaysia, Singapore Sri Lanka and Philippines say that things like Christian guilt/shame is something they internalised either from their schooling or society.
I guess this is how all of this horrible religious discrimination bill stuff can have legs. Yet I feel like over the past few decades we have made such progress in being more open and inclusive to all sorts of diversity. Maybe kids these days don’t have so much of this. Gosh I feel old! I have no idea about kids these days. I disappeared into a bubble just before Australia started getting ugly with the marriage equality debate and feel like I don’t have my finger on the pulse about so many things.