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You keep running around the mulberry bush in the same way. Frankly, this Roman Catholic shock jock stuff is getting rather boring.
Nothing in the article is "shock jock stuff" by any means.
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Originally Posted by ElijahAstin
Here’s a somewhat serious question: why live in Alabama, which is one of the least (and possibly the least) Catholic states in the union? Do you just enjoy a challenge?
I don't like getting into personal stuff on here, but when I moved here I wasn't Catholic, so that didn't play a role in my decision.
That said, I do like it here and have no plans to leave any time soon. No place is perfect.
From the posts you people have made, I don't think many of you remember the 1960s.
I do. I was in college then. Among college students, religion was becoming less and less important. We did protest marches because our friends were being drafted and brought home in caskets. We discovered Rock and Roll and Marijuana. Other drugs were being used by the guys that did make it back alive. We had to try to make those guys part of society again.
If you weren't a young adult in the 60s, you are probably clueless about what that time was like.
From the posts you people have made, I don't think many of you remember the 1960s.
I do. I was in college then. Among college students, religion was becoming less and less important. We did protest marches because our friends were being drafted and brought home in caskets. We discovered Rock and Roll and Marijuana. Other drugs were being used by the guys that did make it back alive. We had to try to make those guys part of society again.
If you weren't a young adult in the 60s, you are probably clueless about what that time was like.
I was young in the 1960s but had three older siblings. My eldest brother was born in 1946. He liked Buddy Holly and feared being drafted.
The Catholic church? I dumped them when I old old enough to get away with it. I think I was fifteen. I had suffered the blackbird section of classroom seating in the Catholic school in first grade because my mother wasn't a member of the Alter and Rosary Society. The teacher, a nun, called me a liar and a thief when someone obviously stole my phoenix workbook and I didn't know what happened to it at the time. Catechism instead of bible stories. I received a Jonah and the whale swim bag from a classmate at my (only) eighth birthday party. I had no idea who the guy was.
I think the catholic church probably attracts a lot of traditional conservative people due to their structured style. But that is due to personality or background.
Henry Kamen is an academic and by no means an apologist for the Inquisition.
The proliferation of exculpatory pleas in his "balanced" revision belies your claim he is not an apologist. The facts ought to speak for themselves without requiring constant exculpatory pleas.
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