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Old Aug 20, 2018, 11:03 AM
DechanDawa DechanDawa is offline
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Originally Posted by amicus_curiae View Post
DD,

First I need to grovel in shame and apologize for misspelling altar boy. I write quickly and loosely but that’s no excuse for so grave an error. Forgive me?

I, too, am the product of twelve-years of parochial education. Back then the nuns outnumbered the priests and the priests outnumbered the laity. But when selected my college I ran fast to the nearest rational-humanist that I could find! But I, too, genuinely enjoyed those first twelve-years.

No, you speak for me as well. There’s a comfort in belonging to, and being ritualized into, the largest Church on Earth. I miss the community but cannot be complicit in the countless horrors now.

I grumble about change now, in my old age and confined confusion, but I thrived on change when younger. I had hopes for the future, changes that could bring about real justice and equality, etc. Fifty years ago I had hope; now I’m ashamed.




Haha, I ALSO misspelled altar boy although now I think "alter boy" might be more apt!
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Thanks for this!
amicus_curiae