While in church today, I was reflecting on the time that I had spent learning about Christ as a child for 8 years during weekly Catechism classes. During my younger years, I remember thinking/believing that no other religion in the world even existed except for Catholicism - not because I was taught that specifically there weren't any other religions, but because no other religions were ever mentioned in my Catechism classes. As a matter of fact, it wasn't until I was finally in junior high school that I even learned that other religions existed. At that point, I started to quickly realize that although I grew up unaware of any other religion, it seemed that my peers not only practiced other religions, but also knew of the Catholic faith AND the differences between my religion and their own.
Why is it that most Catholics have grown up unaware of other religions, but yet our peers not only practiced other religions, but could tell us the differences between them as well?
2007-09-23
18:47:51
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