>Michael Gray wrote:

>> On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:45:33 +0100, "Steve O" nowhere.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> Duke is what I tend to call a "Chain Letter" Christian.
>>> He thinks...

>>
>> Hold it right there bud.
>> That is patently WRONG!

>
>Yeah.
>He learned his catechism after public school from nuns who taught, the same
>way they learned, by rote. Chances are good that every once in a while a
>parish priest would drop by to lend "authority" to what the nuns said.
>Parish priests tend to learn most of what the teach in a rather ridged
>manner.
>Sadly, at least through high school, having Jesuits teach religion classes
>is not much better.

>Happily, the class was a shorter length one and was only taught two or three
>times a week with a *much* more valuable speech class being taught three or
>two times a week.
>
>Happily my class reduced a religion teacher to tears one day.

>He would have us "take out a half sheet of paper", given us three questions
>and answers.
>We were supposed to memorize the answers.
>Instead when the next day he said "take out a half sheet of paper", we took
>out yesterdays Q&A and turned that in.
>
> Had he treated us like high school kids, rather than grade school kids, he
>might have got somewhere.