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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: lorne who wrote (902)12/13/2004 9:34:42 AM
From: cirrus  Read Replies (2) of 224676
 
Do you think kids are as influenced by that stuff as we think?

In the early sixties I attended a Catholic parochial school from grades 1-8, the so-called formative years. The nuns were, how shall I put it, a bit off the deep end? I remember them telling us that we were lucky to be Catholic because we had a chance to go to heaven while the poor Protestants were doomed to hell. We were subjected to two hour diatribes on all manner of issues... the Catholic church is the one true church; the Pope is infallible in matters of faith or morals and so on. Despite that rigorous indoctrination, neither I nor any of my classmates are today what would be called "good, conservative, obedient Catholics" that the school intended to mold.

Of course, we we had opportunities to see for ourselves the silliness of what we were being taught. From a very early age I never beieved that my best friend and playmate from preschool years, whose wonderful family was of a protestant denomination, was going to hell. We always used to wonder who in the Church was able to view movies to decide what ratings the Church would apply without being corrupted. Did the Church viewers have some sort of shield that the average person didn't that allowed them to view and rate a movie "Condemned" without being morally affected by it, as they said we would would be?

Thankfully, we live in a society where most children are exposed to enough diversity to be able to see and recognize illogical or extremist teachings and filter it out, no matter how hard the teachers try to hammer their points home. A workable balance is somehow formed. The Catholic church might strongly disagree, though, opining that we were corrupted by the outside world...
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