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“One of the first things Catholic school taught me is that babies were born sinners. You sucked before you took your first breath.”

Firsts School Born Taught Baby Breaths Catholic Sinner Catholic School

Book:Lizz Free or Die: Essays

Source: Lizz Free or Die: Essays

“Catholic school gave me the tools to reject the very religion they wanted me to have. They taught me how to think for myself and to be independent.”

Thinking Wanted School Taught Tools Independent Catholic Rejects Catholic School

Author:George Carlin

“I think being a Catholic made me a better person. It taught me how to choose good over evil, and how to be a more caring human being.”

Thinking Humans Persons Made Evil Human Beings Taught Catholic Caring Better Person Good Over Evil

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do.”

School Remember Guy Teacher Taught Tough Catholic Math That Guy Catholic School Remembers Everything Math Teacher

Author:Meryl Streep

“Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.”

Years Firsts School Half Taught High School Catholic Forests Lakes Half A Year Catholic School

Author:Elizabeth George

“I was looking, a piece in the "L.A. Times" about a paper called "The Menace" back in 1915, that was railing against Catholics and it said all sorts of things about them. They are essentially a fifth column. They are crypto fascists, that they said if we were compelled to live in this term with Romanists, that`s their term of Catholics, the Romanists will have to be taught their place in. Was that bigotry or were they correct back then to look at Catholicism as fundamentally alien and threatening to the American way of life?”

Ifs Way Looks Said Term Pieces Taught Paper Catholic Aliens Bigotry Catholicism They Said Threatening Compelled Fifth Columns Fascists Menace American Way Of Life

Author:Chris Hayes

“Growing up in Asia in a particular time period - the '50s and '60s - I attended a Catholic missionary school where I was taught by nuns and where consciousness of the body was repressed. Yet at the same time, the female body was a highly visible and sensitive site.”

Body School Consciousness Growing Up Growing Taught Particular Periods Female Catholic Sensitive Visible Missionary Site Asia Nun Repressed Female Body Time Periods

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, "You should be afraid to meet your maker." Rock, despite being Catholic replied, "My dear Madam, in my faith, we are taught that the Lord is with us always. When my time comes, there will be no need for introductions."”

Needs Should Lord Rocks Taught Birth Morality Ethics Catholic Dear Despite My Time Makers Distribution Pills Introduction Inventor Approved One Woman Birth Control Birth Control Pills

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“In the ranks of the movement [National Socialist movement], the most devout Protestant could sit beside the most devout Catholic, without coming into the slightest conflict with his religious convictions. The mighty common struggle which both carried on against the destroyer of Aryan humanity had, on the contrary, taught them mutually to respect and esteem one another.”

Humanity Religious Common Struggle Movement Taught Conflict Catholic Conviction Contrary Esteem Catholicism Socialist Protestants Destroyers Mein Kampf Common Struggle

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down to a naked man who's nailed to a cross? It's like a bad leather bar.”

Thinking Men Jesus Sex Pleasure Taught Normal Crosses Catholic Extremes Bars Naked Leather

Author:John Waters

“When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening, I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me.”

Ifs Young Night Girl Next Father Church Sin Boys Week Taught Decided Catholic Evening Impure Thoughts

Author:Fidel Castro

“The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust.”

Source: Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary

“I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing.”

Values One Thing Taught Catholic Backgrounds

Author:Terry Eagleton

“I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.”

Thinking Teach Taught Catholic Raised Think For Yourself

Author:Abel Ferrara

“I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism.”

Differences Religious Taught Aspect Catholic Catholicism Boyhood

Author:Robert Vaughn