got my ashes yesterday

[gonzaga]

are you a girl/boy? what age?

Im sure you have noticed the campaigning by public and government to have Catholic schools shut down. As they 'breed bigotry', total nonsense. Well on that theory, is it only Catholics that are bigots? I will fight to stop the closure of any Catholic school in Scotland.

England, Wales, Ireland, Spain, coming to think of it, most countries have Catholic schools and there is no problem.

[iggy]

Ash Wednesday after mass, myself and 3 female friends were walking to the dorms, and a woman asked us if we were doing something for a sorority (sp?)
Then before my Mechanics of Elastic Bodies class, people wanted to know what the blob on my forhead was.

[gonzaga]

Yeah, most people in my work were like, 'you have something on your head'. to be fair, one of them apologised because he didnt realise at first what it was, but I told him not to worry about it, there is no badness in him at all( for a protestant)

[Deeds]

[quote name='gonzaga' date='Feb 12 2005, 06:26 PM'] are you a girl/boy? what age?

Im sure you have noticed the campaigning by public and government to have Catholic schools shut down. As they 'breed bigotry', total nonsense. Well on that theory, is it only Catholics that are bigots? I will fight to stop the closure of any Catholic school in Scotland.

England, Wales, Ireland, Spain, coming to think of it, most countries have Catholic schools and there is no problem. [/quote]
20/f. Yes, I know there are those who don't like the existence of state-funded Catholic school, but generally it's not a case of "Those damned Catholics, filling the heads of weans with their Papist nonsense!" It's more along the lines of not agreeing with what some see as effectively state sponsorship of religion and segregation of children. I don't want Catholic schools to be abolished, but I understand the reasoning behind the opposite view, and I don't feel like a poor persecuted wee Catholic because of it.

And actually, most countries keep religion out of their state schools system. Australia, France, Germany, USA...

[gonzaga]

[quote name='Deeds' date='Feb 13 2005, 02:10 AM'] I understand the reasoning behind the opposite view, and I don't feel like a poor persecuted wee Catholic because of it. [/quote]
are you saying I am acting like, 'a poor persecuted wee Catholic?'