Thread: Hypocrisy at my Catholic School

Christianity is about faith and control of the masses, it doesn't have to make sense.

"they afford greater pleasure as food [than fish], and greater nourishment to the human body, so that from their consumption there results a greater surplus available for seminal matter, which when abundant becomes a great incentive to lust." - Thomas Aquinas

so basically, meat makes you feel good....so its bad.

I too, went to a catholic school for many years . Fortunately, it was a very liberal catholic school and except for a bible class here and there they didnt really force anything on us.

Haha yeah I remember they did that in my highschool too. And every goddamn Friday of Lent. My parents expected me to adhere to that rubbish as well, so I had to sneak deli meat out of the fridge and make my own lunch.

At least you get fish! Though I guess it doesn't make much of a difference if you don't like it...

I went to Catholic school too and yeah the whole fish vs meat did not make any sense to me either. (Though at my high school, the alternative was cheese pizza from Domino’s!)

However, the school restricts what the school sells because the school is trying to promote a Catholic lifestyle. This includes no meat on certain days of the year. (One of my elem. school principals actually confiscated lunches which had the forbidden food.) LOL. Anyway, they want to uphold all of the Catholic traditions, and since you go to their school, you agree to take part in those traditions (or at least not complain too much)

As for the fish… I did not know the fish was another symbol for Christianity until after I was out of high school (and saw a bumper sticker ). Technically, for Catholics and certain other Christian religions, the cross is the only recognized symbol. The fish kind of died out for most groups, especially when the Darwinians altered it. However, it is still used by the Christian groups who do not want to use the cross because of its earlier Pagan use.

Invisible man, I don't mind celebrating it, I went to a half hour mass and didn't moan about it and the only reason I go there is because it is the closest school.

I'm not gonna start walking several more miles to go to another school.

Plus I was more annoyed about the fact that I knew more than they did and the fact that loads of them said how would you know, you're an atheist.

From what I understand, the fish was to safely identify if one person was a Christian or not. This has symbolic value because the Apostiles were supposed to be 'fishers of men.' This was back when Christianity wasn't the most popular religion in the world. They are right in saying the cross is the 'main symbol' of Christianity, although you're correct in saying other symbols are used in Christianity.

Also, they see you as being biased against their religion because of your decision to be an atheist. Yes it is unfair that they assume you know nothing, although (again) it shouldn't be too surprising for you.

They might be total jerks too, I wouldn't be surprised. Being Lutheran, I recognize that it's not the teachings of Jesus that are wrong, but sometimes how people act upon them are. If you feel like Real Life Trolling them, pretend to convert to a Lutheran and stamp 99 complaints on their front door. Then do the steak thing.

-off topic-: Love your last LD goal.