Growing up did PBS tell us it's OK to love everyone? Where did I learn this stuff? (lemmy.world)

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[-] Ejh3k@lemmy.world 7 points 9 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.

[-] Paragone@lemmy.world 6 points 9 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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[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah just go ask indigenous peoples across the world what Catholic love was like at their schools.

[-] Ejh3k@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

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.

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