Re: PING! Michael

On 2024-11-23, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

On 2024-11-23 3:27 p.m., ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:

On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 19:14:17 +0000, Bruce wrote:

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If you weren't indoctrinated, why do you take all those fairytales
from the bible literally? That must have been pumped into you from
childhood.
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There were no bible classes in school.  None, nada, zip,
zilch, zero.  Prove the bible classes at church are
fairytales.

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We had one class of Religion every week. I got good marks in it. That
was odd considering my lack of belief and how much I hated being sent to
Sunday School and church. However, the guy they brought in to teach
religion was the minister of the Anglican church we belonged to. It was
interesting that all the Anglicans in our class got good marks.
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I thought we were all pretty much indoctrinated with religion back then.
There was only the one Religion class each week but we had to recite the
Lord's Prayer in opening exercises. People were expected to attend
church regularly, or to at least belong to a church. Public meetings
started with a prayer and public meals started with grace.

I'm grateful I went to public school in the U.S. in the 1960s and
1970s.  Christianity was implicit, but no more so than anywhere
else in white Protestant America.

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Cindy Hamilton