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“I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and Catholicism is terrible - it's the reason there were slaves. Mass every morning at seven o'clock during Lent. It's a totally negative, man-made religion.”

“I think the benefit of a Catholic childhood is your belief in visual symbols as transmitters of information and clues about life, whether it's the mystery of life or life in general.”

Thinking Belief Mystery Childhood Information Benefits Catholic Symbols Visuals Clue Mystery Of Life

Author:Robert Gober

“Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute.”

Children Childhood Absolutes Catholic Nostalgia Pious

Author:Sonia Orwell

“bike downtown, stick out tongues at the Catholics. Or form a Piss Club where we all go in the bushes and peek at each other's sex.”

Form Games Sex Childhood Catholic Sticks Clubs Tongue Bike Downtown

Book:Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories

Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories

“I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie: There's this crazy omnipresent guy who can destroy you at any moment.”

Moments Action School Guy Brain Crazy Childhood Catholic Raised Catholicism Household Medieval Action Movie Catholic School

Author:Grimes

“My mom was very spiritual. We were a Catholic family. We read the Bible at a young age. I have two brothers and a sister. We're all very close. That was part of our childhood. But when I went to college and then got drafted and played in Anaheim, it was a life changer for me. I was exposed to so many things. I was out on my own for the first time.”

Firsts Two Age Spiritual Young My Own Childhood College Brother Mom First Time Our Children Catholic My Mom Life Changing Exposed Young Age Two Brothers Catholic Family

Author:Matt Cullen

“During my childhood years in a Catholic school, one teacher who was more nuts than the rest told me I'd fry in hell if I were a lesbian so I thought maybe the best idea was to be straight.”

Ifs Years Ideas School Hell Teacher Childhood Catholic Being The Best Nuts Catholic School

Author:Olof Arnalds

“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.”

Looks Courses Wonder Childhood Ordinary Catholic Miserable Ashes Survived Happy Childhood

Author:Frank McCourt

“Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood.”

Thinking Children War Childhood Catholic Anti War Robbing Shattering

Book:The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation

Source: The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation