Something was happening up the street today in Santa Maria square. The Church seemed to be rounding up the next generation of PP voters to lecture them on the glories of becoming priests. Seen in the red light of the recent 'scandals', I'll let you make your own joke there. The Bishop himself was present, surrounded by groups of young people. I also refrained from taking a picture of that, even my crude sense of humour knows certain limits.
The getting together of the young with the Men in Black (oops, sorry again I'll leave the jokes to you) reminded me of a somewhat disturbing conversation I had with an otherwise rational student the other day.
The supposed non-believer and scientist to boot was telling me the reasons he sends his children to Catholic schools rather than using the public system. Knowing my skepticism, he came up with this elaborate theory regarding the lack of values teaching in the public schools. I was confused.
Wasn't there just recently a huge uproar in Spain regarding the very fact that the government was introducing a subject that broached that very subject? A course dealing with such awful things as respect and tolerance? Aren't the public schools here bastions of inclusiveness, the place where the private Catholic schools dump the immigrants and troublemakers?
Or wait, were the values he was looking for exclusiveness and the avoidance of law (once again read: pedophile cover up scandals).
Whatever the case, the least they could bother to do is to teach them to pick up after themselves!
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Teaching Values
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I read your blog and I couldn't agree more with it. Fortunately there are plenty of Spaniards who agree with you too, specially those who, like me, managed to survive the "Church Teachins" under Sr. Franco with minor damages. Saludos.
Thanks for stopping by! You're right, there are MANY Spaniards who agree, and maybe I should write about them more often. The only problem is that those do think adoring the image of a tortured man is in some way an 'education' make so much bloody noise around here, one must do all that is possible to counter their corrosive nature.
I'm not religious but I send my kids to Catholic school to avoid having Basque forced on them in the public one.
I think the problem is that Catholicism is so prevalent that it has become invisible and is not seen for what it is - indoctrination into one faith. I object to my daughter having what amounts to a wasted hour while classmates are doing "religión" since the RC Church regards three Rs classes during this time to give the "heathens" an academic advantage over the faithful. They´ve got their cake and they´re eating it.
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