The Reader Travels

My man often asks me, “If you went to church every Sunday as a kid, how come I know more about The Bible than you do?” The answer is simple to me. It’s because I was raised Catholic. Here are the facts:

1) Church was meant to teach us self-control and obedience. The idea was to sit still for an hour and pretend we were listening… or else!

2) We are not supposed to read The Bible. We are supposed to listen to the priest telling us about The Bible.

3) If we do read The Bible, we have to read a pre-approved Catholic version of The Bible.

Did you know that the majority of the Vatican’s banned book list is made up of different versions of The Bible? This was one of the interesting facts I learned during my two years of study in library science. I happen to believe this particular fact.

I don’t, however, believe the “facts” my ex-boyfriend’s roommate told me about the Vatican being a center of occult worship because of all the occult books in its basement and how the Roman Catholic Church secretly sainted Adolph Hitler. Not that it couldn’t happen. It’s just that the guy pretended he had been incarcerated in a penitentiary so his friends would think he was cool, and I just have to consider my source.

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