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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a lapsed Catholic now raising my own kids, I think about the reasons I left the church—hearing homilies about how girls should not aspire to anything other than motherhood, the concept that you could sin just by thinking about sex, and obviously the horrendous abuse scandals that affected people I knew personally—and I know it was the right thing to do. The one thing that gnaws at me is the emphasis on service. I did volunteer work of some kind on a weekly basis from age 10 through college graduation. I have found ways to teach my kids to give their time to others, but it’s not a part of their lives like it was when I was in Catholic school.

I was a high school debate champion and guys like JD Vance were a dime a dozen. “Intellectual” Catholics with little feel for the moral underpinnings of it all, and with unbridled ambition to use their intelligence and smooth talk to get to the top in law and conservative politics. More smart young people are liberal—being a brainy conservative is a savvy way to get ahead.[/quote]

I went to YLS, which is full of HS debate champions.  This is how Vance always strikes me — he likes to argue a point just to score points and thinks he is so clever in doing so.  But there’s no there there.  I agree that his type is a dime a dozen in certain circles.   When you pull off the veneer, what I see underneath is a neglected child who was sort of a loser growing up and who never felt good enough who is searching for fame/power to fill a whole in his heart.  I suspect the structure of Catholicism also is an attempt to fill that hole.  He has sort of the mindset of an addict but instead of craving alcohol or a drug he is craving power and “winning.”  [/quote]

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