Catholic Apologetics.

I had to fight for this class and by golly I'm going to enjoy it. I already had a blast the first day, and came home with seven Bible verses to memorize and I know where they all come from and why they are important and in which context they are used. I'm really excited about learning everything I'm going to learn this year and I am so happy it just made my day. Literally. It really did make my day. Anyway, I have nothing about the same topic to blab, so this is the end of my blog post.

Catholic Education

We never learned apologetics, and I think as a teenager, that is the most important thing you can learn in a Catholic classroom. Yes, you need to learn about God in his almighty goodness and how amazing he is, but a lot of that needs to come from going to church, not from a teacher telling you in a classroom. Protestant churches have Sunday school where they read the Bible and learn a ton of stuff and I'm not going to say I know what all goes on in there because I've never been to Sunday school in my life. But obviously it works because protestants can argue their faith very well. Why can't they teach that to Catholics? We don't know the Bible and can't defend the faith at all. We either depend on what our parents taught us or Catholic apologetics websites, and that's how they learn: by argumental research. I know what I do now because of arguments with my best friend. We never argued to convert. She was Lutheran, I was Catholic, and we knew neither of us were going to convert, but we argued for the sake of arguing. I'm still not good at arguing. I know I come across as an arrogant know-it-all who says I'm right, you're wrong, get over it. I know less than half of what I need to know, and I know where to look it all up if I need help, but I know the basics to get by. I wish I knew this much when I was in eighth grade.