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MellowDem

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8. Catholics are discouraged from their faith...

Reply to corneliamcgillicutty (Original post)

Wed Mar 20, 2013, 11:42 PM

Mar 2013

and are leaving in record numbers. You can cover your ears and eyes and pretend all you want the the Catholic heirarchy doesn't exist, but it's there.

Your OP seems almost delusional, as if you're trying to convince yourself of some sort of ideal Catholic Church that has never existed. You might as well face reality. It's not just Catholicism, but all religions in the developed world that are shrinking.

As for religious schools... let's just say that indoctrinating children in unproven, unproveable beliefs is a form of child abuse.

Most Catholics are not tough, nor most other religious people, considering the majority don't agree with their own belief system yet won't face their own cognitive dissonance or intellectual dishonesty out of fear. Hell, few have the courage of their religion's convictions.

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Catholics are tough--don't you know! [View all] corneliamcgillicutty Mar 2013 OP

I remember some as great teachers and others as abusers Warpy Mar 2013 #1

Great ! That's wonderful. jerseyjack Mar 2013 #2

^ yes ^ Arugula Latte Mar 2013 #10

What a croc. By any measure nuns were also child abusers. MichiganVote Mar 2013 #3

You must have had a terrible experience to corneliamcgillicutty Mar 2013 #6

Me and about 400 other kids in one elementary alone. MichiganVote Mar 2013 #13

I had some tough ones too--believe it! corneliamcgillicutty Mar 2013 #14

How 'tough' they could be? Sheldon Cooper Mar 2013 #16

Sr. Theodosia, my 4th grade teacher, slammed a classmate's head into the blackboard because he had smokey nj Mar 2013 #17

Catholic schools are also the world's #1 producer of atheists. trotsky Mar 2013 #4

Right here on DU? It seems to be a chat room for corneliamcgillicutty Mar 2013 #7

Guilty bhikkhu Mar 2013 #20

great post. I am loving all of these personal stories. liberal_at_heart Mar 2013 #5

Catholics are discouraged from their faith... MellowDem Mar 2013 #8

There you go again--same scata-- corneliamcgillicutty Mar 2013 #9

There you go again - same scata - Zoeisright Mar 2013 #11

OMG--an atheistic plagiarist or corneliamcgillicutty Mar 2013 #12

Ahem. LAGC Mar 2013 #15

"I'm sorry alerter, but the post is correct." treestar Mar 2013 #18

Would you have preferred if I had just said "The poster has a right to express his/her opinion?" LAGC Mar 2013 #19