re: #231 erik_t

I think the RCC is a lot less monolithic than is sometimes appreciated. Growing up, fire and brimstone and fear were nearly absent. Certainly nothing like what some of my evangelical friends heard.

Guilt was still there of course, because let’s be serious.

I grew-up after Vatican II and didn’t have the Baltimore Catechism. I learned about a loving G-d —Jesus was a shepherd. It was the Church on Earth I had issues with from grade school on.

I was told that Man was born with original sin and and the same time that the Men at the Vatican were infallible. I recognized, probably as early as 4th grade, that was Bullshit.