(April 22, 2011 at 7:45 pm)padraic Wrote: G'day Gawdzilla,and welcome from Adelaide South Australia,City of Churches and bizarre murder capital of my great nation.G'day! I have friends in Oz, from Perth to less civilized places like Sydney.
I'm one of the resident old crunts. (I'm 63)
Age 7? Pretty unusual. I was brought up rabid Bog-Irish-Catholic. Took me 20 years to get away from that. Sadly ,I remain a cultural Catholic,with a vestigal Catholic conscience, which is often irritating and at times downright inconvenient.
I guess I was lucky in that my parents were not much interested in religion when I was a kid. Mom never asked me if I want to go back to church, it was a dead issue. My g-grandfather come over from Eire after leaving home rather quickly one night, with wife in tow. I assume someone was looking for him. (Protestant, and I don't know their real last names, that got changed while in line at Ellis Island.)