Posts Tagged ‘religion’

When You Were Young: Losing My Religion

Gentlemen of the world You want to ed­u­cate our young But soon they’ll be on their own. — Nova Heart, The Spoons The sec­ond en­try from my un­earthed grade-nine jour­nal finds our hero­ine (me) sort­ing out her sched­ule, mak­ing new friends and test­ing the bound­aries of sac­ri­lege. Sept. 17/82 Well, Journal, I’m here again on another […]

Catholic girls start much too late

I have a con­fes­sion to make: I am a for­mer Catholic school­girl. I’ve since been saved from the church and have been blas­phem­ing ever since. When I heard the news that The Vatican gave Avatar a poor re­view and crit­i­cized the film for “flirt­ing with mod­ern doc­trines that pro­mote the wor­ship of na­ture as a sub­sti­tute for re­li­gion,” my im­me­di­ate thought was, […]

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