"How in hell did you make that leap."
You said-
"I have read threads here that have practically accused people of child abuse for raising children within a religious tradition."
Re-looking at it, I realise that your statement is open to interpretation - if I have made the wrong one - my apologies - there has been a great deal of discussion on clerical child abuse on this forum.
Nope - I am not "scary" in the slightest - quite shy and docile actually
" You do make some rather sweeping assumptions about how people of faith , or raised in religious homes are brought up."
I seldom, if ever "make assumptions, sweeping or otherwise, on how such people are brought up - my family are virtually all of a Roman Catholic background and I am well aware of the influence on their bringing up.
Had my father not been excommunicated for fighting on the "wrong side" in The Spanish Civil War, I would quite likely have been brought up a Catholic, as were my parents, grandparents, nepewss, neices cousins, uncles, aunts......
We now live in Catholic Ireland and most of our friends and neighbours are practicing Catholics.
In a country where the 96 percent of the primary schools are run by the Church - the next scandal to hit the fan is that while around 30 percent of the marriages here are civil ceremonies, many schools are demanding baptismal certificates before they will accept children as pupils.
My argument has never been with religion, whic is a personal choice, but with the behaviour of the church - on many issues.
"Jim says its not a gang activity"
It isn't, and to be accused of such is as insulting as anything that has been said about you.
Jim Carroll