Professor Shaw writes:

"Ha bloody ha. How do you know I rebelled against it? As it happens I ever so quietly dropped the bloody thing. And I can't rebel now because I haven't been part of it for thirty or more years."

This is what he earlier wrote:

"If some ignorant becassocked git splashes water over your head and pronounces you a member of the faith in front of relatives and "God", you're signed up. If some ignorant armed git chops your foreskin off within days of your birth in a big ceremony, you're signed up. In both cases, good and proper. In both cases you will be assiduously followed up all through your childhood by being force-fed doctrine and prayers in faith schools and/or your family until you can bleat the whole bloody thing out like a parrot. It's a damn sight more than just signing up, which is merely my euphemism for it. I can't understand why you can't grasp this."

You seem to be contradicting yourself, prof? Were you force-fed doctrine or were you not? If not, what are you so upset about? Also the tone of righteous indignation in the above statement is impossible to ignore. It jumps out in your face.