Did you ever attend a Catholic school Mike and experience the religious practices there to see how many times religion made its presence known throughout the day?
I still remember, from the age of six, standing below the statue of a near-naked man, shot through with arrows and streaming with blood, waiting with a relative to see if there was a place for me in that bright and cheerful font of knowledge.
The hooded women in black who floated by, seemingly without feet, dis wonders for my six-year-old confidence.
Why don't you make an effort not to express your ignorance of the real world outside the cosseted cloisters of academe for a change.
Jim Carroll