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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think going to Catholic school is a large part of why my Dad's not just lapsed, but actively hates the church.  He said the nuns regularly hit them.[/quote]

How old is your father?  The public school kids around me were still regularly getting whaled on with a wooden paddle long after the local nuns put away their flyswatters.

What people who “hate the Church” usually actually hate is the guilt and shame they feel from something they do or have done that they know is wrong but want to continue instead of seeking forgiveness and a change of life. There are people who received a very distorted guilt and shame based religious formation (and not just in the Catholic Church) that left them wounded and without any understanding of divine mercy. [/quote]

Well, people like you certainly won't bring my Dad back to the church given your reaction to "The nuns beat my Dad" is "he must have done something wronf."  Just, wow.[/quote]

Of course my post said nothing of the kind.

I asked how old he was, because, quite frankly, corporal punishment was not unique to Catholic schools, and vanished from them long ago. But it makes a great excuse for not going to Church when a person would rather not address something else. Which was my second point.

I know people who say they quit going to Mass because the Church got rid of Latin, but who were not born until well after the Vatican II Mass changes. They repeat an excuse their older relatives made rather than looking at what’s really going on.

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