Once again you confuse your experience of Catholics to be perfectly representative of Catholics everywhere.
Why would you not expect me to? It was pretty pervasive. It was the way I was taught and thought. It was the way my Catholic relatives (the ones that included the priests and nuns) thought and taught. It was the way the Catholics I went to school with and worked with taught and thought.
And they didn't all go to the same parish. There were several different parishes represented in those groups of people.
This is bad reasoning.
Not when it's what you experience for decades. It would be bad reasoning to presume that not all Catholics thought that way when I didn't have any Catholics give me any reason to think differently.
Oh, because I keep thinking that even the angry have the capacity for clear thought. Because I told you I had the opposite experience. Because insisting on one's own experience being normative is immature.
It's like the person from a broken home who concludes that matrimony is bunk, or the person from an alcoholic background who decides that alcohol is bad. It's careless thought.
INDEED.
WELL PUT and accurate from my experiences and observations as well.