I talked to my friend to verify that what I said was true and he said yes, that he was probably 40 years old before he knew there was a Bible.
He said he grew up in the Catholic Church and went to CAtholic school and never heard anything about the Bible.
He said the reason he learned about the Bible when he did was because he met the woman that he married and she had a King James Bible.
Simply not credible. Ridiculous in fact.
That kind of staggering ignorance cannot be laid at the feet of the Catholic Church.
How old was he when he first learned about the dictionary? The phone book? The sun?
He said he grew up in the Catholic Church and went to CAtholic school and never heard anything about the Bible.
As a cradle Catholic, who went to Catholic schools, is not yet 40, and was brought up during an incredibly lax time of catechesis, that is rather incredulous. The first class I can remember being required to have a bible was freshman Old Testament, but before that we read stories and parables from it. We knew what it was, but hadn't really begun to study it. And daily Mass - there's more scripture there than not. We had a number at home, and my grandparents had a few. Anybody who grew up Catholic and can make that claim is a victim of lax schools, catechesis and parenting, IMO.