Reply #26: I wasn't so much shocked as cynical [View All]

[MorningGlow]

By the time I was a teenager, I knew QUITE well that adults had a zillion faults (started when I was 6 and my parents divorced--ugh, did they make some bad choices). But because my parents were older than my friends' parents (they were born in the '20s and raised during the Depression), I was indoctrinated with their old-fashioned belief that teachers, as individuals in positions of authority, were always right. Finding out that wasn't the case WAS a hard lesson to learn and definitely stunned me.

As for the religion thing, I do have faith, but in the belief system I finally embraced, that doesn't mean "don't think--just accept what we tell you". THAT I can't abide.