Reply #32: What a horror story. Here's another! [View All]

[despairing optimist]

I heard about this one when I was a student in an all-boy Catholic high school that is still all-boy. Anyway, in one of our rival all-boy schools there was one smart-ass kid who answered back to one of the brothers. That brother forced the kid to go to the gym and box him, with boxing gloves, in a boxing ring in front of all his classmates. Now, remember the kid was probably 15 and the brother was at least ten years older. You can imagine what happened and how humiliated that kid was. I don't care what he said or did; teenage boys can be smartasses but how adults deal with them is much more a reflection on the adults than on any kids.

I believe that Catholic schools are the best producers of atheists that this country has. The contradictions between words and deeds are too great for anyone with any intellectual independence and genuine conscience to ignore.