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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Subject: Re: 92 in rabreview
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.174916.21772@spdcc.com>
- Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
- References: <1hpt8dINNiv5@morrow.stanford.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:49:16 GMT
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- In article <1hpt8dINNiv5@morrow.stanford.edu> francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir) writes:
- >BTW, there are no ex-Catholics.
- >Its just that one gives up practising. Popery is more like bicycle-riding
- >than piano-playing. Once learnt, never forgotten, and practise may make
- >perfect, but perfection is best left to the perfectionists.
-
- I had a delightful conversation a few years ago with an acquaintance
- discussing the persistence of Catholicism in nominal ex-Catholics, using
- myself as an example. He remarked: "You've lost your faith, but not your
- parochialism." Bingo.
-
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- Steve Dyer
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