(January 6, 2009 at 3:15 pm)Eilonnwy Wrote: I had some nuns teaching, and other times just regular teachers. My school was a weird mixed bag, but I usually got chastized the most for my atheism by the nuns of course. ^^()
Interestingly enough I'm listening to an old podcast of the Non-Prophets where they read a section of Daniel Dennetts letter from after a very life threatening surgery he had. They read a specific section on prayer which I thought is very relevant to the conversation. It's linked here: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dennett0...index.html
The specific section on prayer is the 9th paragraph if you want to skip over the rest but I recommend reading it in entirety. Good stuff.
Nuns scared me shitless when I was a child. My family was not catholic, but my mum used to send laundry to a local MAGDALENE prison, where " fallen women " were sent to work as slaves under the iron heel of those nuns. I had to go and collect the washing. The building was a gothic monstrosity. I was full of dread and trepidation as I walked hesitantly over the cobbled stones to knock on huge, locked sliding doors, knowing that when pulled back, there to greet me would be a vile penguin-like creature. The smell from inside was also vile...washing smells, but not pleasant and I gaped in wonder at the piniform-wearing females with gaunt faces, slaving away in mountains of dirty product. I didn't know at the time what that regime represented, but I sensed the evil from those nun creatures!
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
