Holy shit, y'all
The Munsons are Catholic.
A few additional points, inspired by comments in the notes:
- This stuff isn't necessarily, specifically, exclusively Catholic, but there's enough iconography involved that it definitely suggests it. Jason Carver on the other hand (and by extension, almost certainly Chrissy's family) is absolutely not Catholic. That boy is an Evangelical Christian if ever there was one, and there's a nonzero chance that, in this particular time and place, his views on Catholocism are not that far off from his views on Satanism. (For reference about an interreligious dynamic that is much, much too complicated to get into here, I recommend checking out the hilariously terrible and absolutely classic Chick Tracts, Dark Dungeons and Death Cookie. Note, Eddie has absolutely seen and read both of these. Probably out loud. He's done voices.) They absolutely do not go to the same church.
- Some people have suggested that the Munsons may in fact be lapsed Catholics (or the lightswitch plate may be inherited from a previous resident), and while that's eminently plausible for Eddie, I'd like to point out that that is a 1986 calendar right there and it is a cloth banner, not paper. Wayne Munson went out and purchased that shit, deliberately, not four months ago. That is recent and active. Pick whatever explanation you like for that.
- Eddie himself, of course, can still be interpreted as anything from 'devout atheist who's found ways to coexist with Uncle Wayne in spite of their differences of opinion' to 'still goes to church every other Sunday because breaking most of the rules most of the time doesn't mean he's kicked out, and the aesthetic does really go off'. Personally, I have a long-standing soft spot for Jewish Eddie, which given this new evidence would probably make him the kid of a Jewish mom who ended up living with his awkward-but-supportive Catholic uncle, trying to figure out how to make it work anyway.
(Does that particular headcanon inevitably end up in something like a fictionalized version of this twitter thread? I think you all know it does.)
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