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Great education is right.

I do have a friend educated in the Jesuit system, from the time he was 6-18 he was sent off to boarding school. He only seen his parents on the holidays and that was only via a nanny. I suppose you can do lot of indoctrination over a span of 12 years and then 4-8 years of college?

Some day you might even be able to make history by inviting the Pope to address a joint session of Congress...for the 1st time in 240 years.

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You almost had me with your assertion that you're 'playing with a full deck', then you showed me your hand. Jokers are not wild, they're simply bat droppings.

Speaking of which, I don't have the time nor the inclination to sweep up all of the droppings so......

What exactly has been the pernicious result of the Pope's address to Congress? To me it was just weepy RC Boehner....he extended the invitation....saving himself some airfare and giving him one final lachrymose event before retiring.

Thanks for the anecdote about your friend, who no doubt serves as your conspiratorial template for all of RC education.

You could make the exact same statement for a Protestant private school education without changing anything but 'Jesuit system'. You know from grammar school, to Groton, to Yale for example.

And you've heard the phrase 'cafeteria Catholics'? The vast majority of RC's 'pick and choose', particularly on contraception and abortion.

Which doesn't make them much different in practice from most Protestant denomination members.

My own experience was RC grammar school and HS followed by public college. What I recall is a sh*t load of homework through HS.

(But I was always disappointed that Kellogg's didn't offer an order by mail coupon for a 'Vatican Decoder Ring' so I could get in on all the conspiratorial shi*t my little Protestant friends though I was privy to.
I did like those baking soda powered submarines though!)

The secular education, reading, writing, literature, science and math had the same effect on me as on most educated people, instilling habits of thought, critical thinking and skepticism.

Secular Humanism!

Good for college, not so much for the continued practice of formal religion. Most of my schoolmates, RC and Protestant, followed the same path. We all concluded that the hard ass, highly analytical secular education created an outlook, a cast of mind, that was mostly incompatible with formal religion.

They are a mix of Dem, GOP and Independents and to a man and woman, no less moral or ethical than our church going friends.

But we're all remarkably free of conspiracy theory credulousness. Go figure!

Thank you nuns and Christian Bros. for THAT! Ironic, eh?

What else? Oh yeah, easy pickings.....

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