Exactly. Didn't Christ die for all? And was Christ, likewise, a commoner, yet the second person of the Holy Trinity?
I will never cease to be amazed at how misunderstood plain words can be.
You seem to be suffering under the delusion that I was complaining about the simple people. I was complaining about the Catholic Church's leaders, who seem to lack the most basic simplicity of belief, yet who rule over illiterate peasants as if they were all one big happy family. And I know you will tell me that's exactly what they are, so I must interject here my bitterness that a poor redneck who didn't have the benefit of Irish or Polish culture and whose "madonna" was the Bible couldn't be accepted by those sophisticated leaders with the same magnamimity with which they accept their own peasants.
Okay now, don't tell me. You didn't understand that either, right?
You are always welcome at the Catholic Church, I'm sorry you felt like an orphan. Did you join with other neophytes in parish groups?
How would you feel if you converted to a religion that didn't even exist in your county (which meant I drove a great deal every week to go to church even though my own county had sixty-something churches), then attended a "respectable" higher critical university and when you turned to "your" church for help were told you didn't belong? Especially on november 1 when you had to immediately precede to mass after being told this?
Rednecks were never meant to be Catholics. At least I know this now. I only hope my own miserable experience can save someone else from the torment that I experienced.
I guess the rednecks in Louisiana don't count, since they are many Catholics there.