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To: Lane3 who wrote (8696)	3/15/2001 5:55:27 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 82486

I think that some organized religions contribute mightily to the impression that you have to check your brains at the door. I don't know how Catholics are raised now, but my religious training consisted of memorizing the Baltimore Catechism. I had this bad habit of asking "why?" regarding the answer I had duly memorized and always got back that special glare that only a nun can give or the authoritarian "because the Church says so." Karen, my experience at Catholic elementary and high schools in the 70s and 80s was different particularly in HS. The Church's position was taught, but in HS there was an attempt to explain and examine it as well. There wasn't any "you better shut up, the church says this and you will like it" attitude. I concluded from that experience, while I was still very young, correctly or not, that you have to be dull witted to be religious. Those early impressions tend to stick, particularly if they're not firmly contradicted by subsequent experiences. You have never met any religious person who was not dull witted?? Tim

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