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Date Posted: 21:40:08 07/23/07 Mon
Author: Neysa
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Subject: Catie...................................
In reply to: Neysa 's message, "How can we believe in a God we can not see ?" on 17:39:42 07/22/07 Sun

When I was in Catholic school in the 1970's and 1980's, reading the bible was not part of my Catholic upbringing. Sure the nuns read us bible stories in 1st and 2nd grade. I've never read the entire bible. I cannot quote a page of it. I live in the same town that my family has lived in for four generations. When my parents were growing up neighborhoods were very ethnic. Irish lived in a certain block, Germans, Italians, Ukrainians, Polish all had their sections. I still live where my dad grew up and 99 % were Catholic. When I was growing up it was still very Catholic. When I was 8 years old a family moved in the neighborhood who were Baptist. I became friends with the oldest daughter Barbara. I and all the other kids on the block who were also Catholic, would sit on Barbara's front porch as she would quote passages from the bible. This was new to us Catholic kids. We were just mesmerized and kept asking Barbara, to please quote more. There used to be a Rabbi and his wife who had a their own TV program and I also learned a lot from watching their show.

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