• Ejh3k@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    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.

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      5 months ago

      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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