[metmom]

And yet if I say so, somehow it becomes MY fault that you were deceived into believing some Jansenist horror-story instead of the Gospel and wrong of me to point out the vicious and cruel heresies of your teachers.

I never thought that nor implied it. It's the fault of those who improperly catechized me.

I'm just telling you what happened and that I am blamed for my own being poorly catechized.

[Mad Dawg]

I am blamed for my own being poorly catechized.

If there's any blame, it's not for your catechesis, it's for not taking steps to remedy it. If I rested in what my parents and Sunday school teachers told me about Christianity, I'd be a Buddhist now. I started my own researches when I was ten and a half. I can tell you the month. It was October of 1958.

They were pretty childish at first. I remember checking the Book of Common Prayer against my KJV -- under the covers with my flashlight. But I wanted to know. May God rebuke those who drove your curiosity out of you.