Religion on Application

mom2collegekids
Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:42:40 +0000

Yeah I used to bring up tough questions in religion class, even when I was religious, but my teacher pretty much ignored the questions and told me I was a heretic bound for Hell. So now I just kinda stay quiet and sing the party line in essays, if you know what I mean. I don’t want to make any enemies/hurt anyone’s feelings/disturb the class/take away from anyone else’s faith at school, so I just have to make sure I don’t say anything controversial.

I know that this isn’t the point of the thread, but I wanted to comment on this.

My kids went to Catholic schools, and sometimes non-Catholics or whatever would want to derail the religion classes. It’s fine to ask questions and have the teacher respond, but sometimes these kids just wanted to be “center of attention” and would try to monopolize the classes. When one teacher found that his class was constantly getting derailed by one particular Episcopalian student who was annoyed that Catholics don’t ordain women and that she couldn’t receive Communion during the school Masses, he finally told that child, if you want to further discuss those issues, please see me after class. The student never came because the intent was lost…to be center of attention and to have an audience.

I’m not saying that was your intent.

Oh, and Sovereign…the Church is not absurd. You may not understand the Church, and that’s probably what the situation is.

Yes, Moustache…if you have a question, ask a Catholic that is knowledgeable and is able to “break things down” so that doctrines are understandable. Not many can, even many HS religion teachers can’t. If you have a particular question, you can PM me. I have taught Catholic Apologetics classes for years. There isn’t a doctrine that I can’t fully explain.