Suppose I buy a house and sometime later the seller calls me and says “watch out for that water heater, there’s a problem with the gas line to it”.
I go check the water heater and call him back to say “is the problem with the gas line that there isn’t one because it’s an electric water heater?”
He then starts telling me it used to be his house so obviously he knows it just as well if not better than I do and he’s even got a copy of the plans.
Meanwhile, I’m looking at an electric water heater.
Where do we go from there? Perhaps his memory isn’t very good. Maybe he’s drunk out of his mind. Maybe he’s bored and just entertaining himself. Maybe he’s thinking of a different house altogether. Clearly I want to put the most charitable spin on his tremendous error, I really don’t want to assume that he’s bad, but the fact remains that he’s wrong.
The fact remains that what passes for Catholic education has been abominable for at least the last 40 years. My best friend is a priest, he’s the godfather of my children and when the time came to decide how they should be educated I looked him in the eye and said “would you trust these kids to your parish school and religious education program?” His answer is one of the reasons we’re homeschooling them.
It’s a disaster, easily 70% of practicing Catholics can’t accurately put their faith into a coherent statement. It’s almost entirely due to the fact that they’ve been taught garbage.
I say “almost”... because there’s something else at work here that my wife has identified over the last 13 years that’s she’s worked for the Church. There’s some kind of bizarre “group think” collective memory thing going on where people are recounting events and memories that simply did not happen. There are enough incidents with concrete evidence proving that it’s going on to convince me, I just don’t understand it. It’s surreal.
But beyond that, when someone tells me something that I know isn’t true I’d far rather assume that they’re honestly telling me what they believe and were merely misinformed.
Maybe you’re looking at an electric hot water heater because there really was a problem with the gas line to it and it had been disconnected.
It may have been a less that accurate way to warn you to not install a gas water heater again.
No doubt many/most parish schools are bad.
However, to say that all RC education K-Masters or PhD degrees are all uniformly horrible . . . is a stretch.
To say that all bright students of K-BA/BS/Masters/or PhD degrees are tooooo gullibly clueless than to suck up only the wrong stuff without any intelligent thought about the content is also a stretch.
nice.
But beyond that, when someone tells me something that I know isn’t true I’d far rather assume that they’re honestly telling me what they believe and were merely misinformed.
You're much too reasonable. :-)