Catholics Are At It Again

RSLancastr said:
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I went to a public high school, but my senior year I participated in a city educational project where all but two of the fifty students in the program were were from the local Catholic high school.

The kids from the catholic high school were drinkingest, most sexually active kids i had ever met.

My guess is, it was from all that oppression/repression that they were under at school. When they were away from it, they went wild.

This was ONE of the reasons I didn't let my kids attend catholic school, as my then-wife wanted.

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Where I come from, Jewish kids with drug or discipline problems were sent to Catholic school by their parents. Maybe they got a little more structure in school, but out of school... oy vey.
 
Thisis why I laugh at the prayer in school crowd. In Catholic school we prayed all the time and you know what? We were just as evil as our public school counterparts. And the girls all turned into whores.


They also taught us evolution. Isnt that kinda blasphameous?
 
Tmy said:
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They also taught us evolution. Isnt that kinda blasphameous?
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Even the pope will grant you evolution. You've got to be a Pat Buchanan type of Catholic to have a problem with that.
 
Tmy said:
Thisis why I laugh at the prayer in school crowd. In Catholic school we prayed all the time and you know what? We were just as evil as our public school counterparts. And the girls all turned into whores.


They also taught us evolution. Isnt that kinda blasphameous?
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Yeah in general Catholic, and Episcopelian (sp?) Tend to take a more figurative / metaphorical approach to the bible, with the exception of the transubstantiation thing.

Protestant sects are more likely to take a literal approach or fundamentalist approach to the word.
 
Every person in America and Europe should be forced to watch the Magdaline Sisters, in theaters now.

http://www.miramax.com/the_magdalene_sisters/

Drawing on one of the darkest secrets of Irish society -- which might almost be said to be built upon dark secrets -- "The Magdalene Sisters" is a rip-roaring feminist yarn that should offer relief to viewers anxious for an alternative to the boys-with-guns flicks of summer. This drama about the girls and women incarcerated in a convent laundry has the advantage of historical veracity, and it provides a useful object lesson in what can happen when an entire nation becomes hypnotized by one particular vision of religious virtue.

What really matters, though, is that writer-director Peter Mullan has crafted a classic crowd-pleaser, a neo-Gothic tale whose appealing heroines are unfairly oppressed but finally find the strength to set themselves free. With its nearly all-female cast and its story of a community of women poisoned and embittered by an atmosphere of sexual hostility (with a dash of lesbian sadism thrown in), "The Magdalene Sisters" will seem slightly familiar to any connoisseur of trashy genre films. (I'm not saying that's what it is, at least not exactly.) Basically, we're talking women-in-prison message movie, with the added touch that the prisoners aren't guilty of anything -- except being women.
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Why would they want their daughter to be taught that homosexual behaviour is a sin and that homosexuals are deviants?

There are two possiblities I can think of:

1). Less generous: because the alternative is going to the local public school, so they figured that hearing "Mom, they told me you're a sinner today" is better than "Mom, I was mugged today".

2). More generous: for the same reason some black students wanted to go to U. of Mississippi in the 1960s despite knowing in advance that they'll be hated there.

I know your question was about whether the school has a right not to admit her.

Yes, they do. The school principal also has the right to join the KKK. It's a private organization. But, then again, just because they have a right to be jerks doesn't mean they aren't jerks.
 
Homosexuals

This is just another example of a moronic decision, made by possibly one moron, who has his head where the "moon does not seem to shine".

It's cases like this, that really hurt religion. :mad:
 
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