Finally Found The Courage of My Convictions and Told Facebook Bigots off!

[ybbor]

49. 12 years of Catholic school here

It was the early 70's to mid 80's when I was there. My schools were mainly lay people teaching and the post Vatican 2 era was in full swing. I only had 5 nuns in 12 years, and mainly once a week for art or one hour long class. Catholics were pretty progressive in those days. When I would ask my religion teacher questions along those lines she was respond in the same manner. Like that a day may have been a million years long to explain the creation in 6 days story. I found it very open to discussion. I continued to play the devil's advocate in my religion classes, and eventually considered religion class as a history class of sorts.

I currently consider myself a very spiritual agnostic, who is freaked out at how much the church has changed since then. I am very supportive of the new pope, but I am worried about his safety with all these "real Christians" out there who are seeing their way being challenged.