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Originally Posted by Cheese
But they still push God/Jesus/Mother Mary/Holy Ghost/sacrements/etc etc etc on all of the children.
Get on your knees!
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In all honesty that was not my experience in the Catholic school system in Calgary at all.
I come from a family that believes in God, but not in any prescribed religion. I myself have never believed in God, not when I was in school, or now.
But what I found was that this experience opened my mind to other possibilities and of the rights of these other possibilities to exist.
My school experience was NEVER that anything was pushed onto the students. Religion class was mandatory - but through it came my first exposure to Buddhism and other Eastern religious thought.
There were religious aspects in addition to that. There were masses for graduation for example. But these were optional, and as a non-catholic student I was neither discouraged nor encouraged to attend. It was up to me. Sometimes I went. Sometimes I didnt. And there were always non-religious versions of all the usual school ceremonys as well.
Growing up I went to schools in 4 different countries on 3 different continents and the best education I recieved, especially in the sciences (for which I eventually went to university) was in the Calgary Catholic system.