Family friend of ours was chatting with me and my wife and I mentioned I was thinking of a religious study program for the kids*. She turned red and pretty much growled out to us something along the lines: if you put them in a Catholic program I am going to lose it. They beat me. I am not happy with my response of nervous laughing but it was involuntary.
*I am an atheist. If you teach a kid one religion you indoctrinate them, if you teach them more than one you vaccinate them.
I grew up Catholic, and went to Catholic schools, and weirdly was never taught to not love everyone and to believe and trust in science.
I remember seeing a clip of an ItalianAmerican comedian in NY…
He asked the audience if anyone-there had gone to Catholic school…
…some hands went up…
He asked those if they remember the names of the nuns teaching in that school…
…names like “Lefty” & “Knuckles”…
…camera showed people in the audience nodding…
iirc, a nun in the Catholic grade-school I was in, broke one boy’s arm, when she flipped his desk on him.
Catholic school values had nothing, whatsoever, to do with the religion of Catholicism’s root-guru.
The “Residential Schools” that we forced on the Indigenous children, with their super-high suicide-rates, were a whole category worse, too.
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Family friend of ours was chatting with me and my wife and I mentioned I was thinking of a religious study program for the kids*. She turned red and pretty much growled out to us something along the lines: if you put them in a Catholic program I am going to lose it. They beat me. I am not happy with my response of nervous laughing but it was involuntary.
*I am an atheist. If you teach a kid one religion you indoctrinate them, if you teach them more than one you vaccinate them.
Yeah just go ask indigenous peoples across the world what Catholic love was like at their schools.
Oh, I’m well aware of how bad Catholicism it and I am not defending it. I was raised Catholic, definitely am not now.
I brought it up because my school was somehow the exception to the typical religious schooling.