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> the average Catholic school is more likely to turn your child into an atheist than into a convinced Catholic Most serious Catholics I know agree with this, b
by toasterlovin 2y ago
> the average Catholic school is more likely to turn your child into an atheist than into a convinced Catholic
Most serious Catholics I know agree with this, btw.
- Terr_ 2y agoI'm sure that it features prominently in some people's life paths, but this kind of conclusion really demands statistics before it becomes an unexamined truism. For example, the N-years-latee Catholic versus atheist ratio among graduated students, and what we would expect it to be from a secular school after controlling for variables like socioeconomic status and parent's religion.
- skissane 2y agoI, all my siblings, the majority of my cousins, graduated from Catholic high schools. How many of us, and how many of our classmates, are serious Catholics? And how many total strangers, who went to completely different Catholic high schools in completely different decades–even on completely different continents–tell largely the same tale? Yes, data is not the plural of anecdote–but sometimes the anecdotes pile up so high, it becomes rather implausible that the data is going to tell a substantially different story.