This Is Why America Keeps Getting More Conservative

[HockeyMom]

8. Religous "training" can backfire on them

I spent 12 years in Catholic school. We were taught religion, not just Roman Catholic religion, but we had to know about all other religions. I think they call that Compartive Religions. Supposedly, they felt that a Catholic couldn't debate a Non-Catholic/Non-Christian, or promote the faith, if they didn't know what other religions were all about.

Ok, so with all this knowledge would presumably make a person a stronger Catholic? As you said, critical thinking skills! Be careful what you wish for, you just might get what you didn't ask for. If you could critically debate OTHER RELIGIONS, or NONE, you could also critically debate, and QUESTION, you own Catholic faith.

I hear many religious Catholic people say that the Church has failed to "teach" their flock the religion and that is why so many Catholic ignore the church's teachings on birth control, gay marriage, divorce, etc. Oh, I don't think that is so. Certainly not for adults who went to their schools. They KNOW very well, but because they have been taught to THINK, they are IGNORING what the bishops are saying. It doesn't make any SENSE to them.