You wrote:
“The Catholic Church DOES encourage you to read a Bible.”
That may be true elswhere and in general in other areas, but as I have been trying to point out, the school I went to DID NOT encourage us to read the Bible !!
“But clearly the lack of curiosity was all your own.” If you were looking at your watch then you were not looking in the missal. So, something placed their for your encouragement was ignored”
It may have been there for my encouragement, but I was not encouraged to read it, by anyone. Example: Kids don’t do homework unless you require them to. I was not required, or encouraged to read it. I COULD have read it, but to a kid, the mass just seemed like a carbon copy of last weeks mass. Except for a few different readings and the sermon, the mass, they’re all pretty much the same.
“Repetition of prayers has nothing to do with the length of the sermon.”
Most of the mass IS the scripted prayers, every week.
“So no one read at Mass?”
Yes, they did at mass, and at school here and there, but that was it.
“Are you sure you really went to Catholic school?”
Yes!
“How can it be that you could be at Mass and a Catholci school and have no natural curiosity?”
Maybe cause I didn’t like going to church when I was younger and disliked the nuns who hit us.
“So you say, but that of course is merely your opinion. I hope it is true nonetheless.”
Well thanks, but I’m confident I’m saved. The Bible tells us how we can be confident of our salvation.
You wrote:
“That may be true elswhere and in general in other areas, but as I have been trying to point out, the school I went to DID NOT encourage us to read the Bible !!”
And as I have been pointing out the Church you said you once belonged to does. This is not about a school alone.
“It may have been there for my encouragement, but I was not encouraged to read it, by anyone. Example: Kids don’t do homework unless you require them to. I was not required, or encouraged to read it. I COULD have read it, but to a kid, the mass just seemed like a carbon copy of last weeks mass. Except for a few different readings and the sermon, the mass, they’re all pretty much the same.”
But this isn’t about the Mass either. The readings are part of the Mass, but are not the Mass itself. No curiosity about the story of God is about the person’s laziness, not the lack of encouragement from anyone else.
“Most of the mass IS the scripted prayers, every week.”
Most of the Mass is scripture in the forms of prayers.
http://books.google.com/books?id=dOGL67Xa_nUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=stravinskas
“Yes, they did at mass, and at school here and there, but that was it.”
And you thought that the Mass’ importance was not encouragement to read the scriptures even though they were read at Mass?
“Yes!”
Apparemtly you slept through it all. You’re helping me to understand how people could have voted for Obama when they should have known better.
“Maybe cause I didn’t like going to church when I was younger and disliked the nuns who hit us.”
And if your parents ever hit you that stopped you from being interested in your family right?
“Well thanks, but I’m confident I’m saved. The Bible tells us how we can be confident of our salvation.”
Confident, but not presumptive.
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.