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[–] glizzyguzzler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 week ago

Christian religions refer to followers of their religion as “children” and their god as “father”, hence the phrasing. If you’ve grown up in a region that is Christian-dominated it’s regular phrasing. Also jesus is also god or something idc and priests are father too probably