<p>You shouldn’t care what other people say about your beliefs because their opinion doesn’t mean anything.</p>
<p>OP, a fellow Texan feels ya.</p>
<p>Ds2 also rcv’d that Yale book. For some reason, it piqued my interest, even though I’m also kind of anti-Ivy, whatever that means. Ds1 had no interest, but ds2 is showing some. I wouldn’t keep him from applying. But we wouldn’t go visit unless he got in.</p>
<p>Also, I just have to say that post no. 29 was one of the rudest things I’ve ever read on cc.</p>
<p>Ummm… I’m not sure how anyone got that I said that Catholics were not Christians… My best friend growing up was Catholic. He was the brother I never had. I was Methodist then. Other friends were Baptist. My church had the best dances and all my friends: Catholics and Baptist came to my church for the dances…</p>
<p>This friend also attended Baylor with me. He was never looked down upon at a Baptist school. No one ever told him he wasn’t a Christian because he was… I am so confused as to why that person told me mine was a horrible post. </p>
<p>My GRANDPARENTS thought Yale changed my father. It probably didn’t. My personal bias is that it seems liberal to me and it does seem like it is really hard. I saw my dad’s report cards from Yale… He made the Dean’s list but had a lot of B’s. He thought I wasn’t very smart, I think. He was always bemoaning my education and what I wasn’t learning in school. Yet I was close to the top of my class. But he was correct. I didn’t learn to write like he could. I couldn’t do math like he could. My vocabulary was pretty good, but I didn’t read the dictionary ( seriously, the man did!) like he did.</p>
<p>Sigh… please stop the Catholic and Protestant debate… I just got through going to a mission trip in Honduras. One of the things we did is go to a Catholic mass in Spanish. Very interesting… I just don’t get why some of you thought my post was rude. I try very, very hard not to ever hurt anyone’s feelings…</p>
<p>My best friend was Catholic… He died when he was in his 30’s with 2 small children… I miss my big brother, too. He always had such good advice for me…</p>
<p>Mom, I completely disagree with any criticism that you spoke negatively or exclusionarily about Catholics. I am Catholic, and very liberal, and nothing about your posts has offended me. I am sure your father would be very proud of you.</p>
<p>I have to say that I am a little bemused by Catholics being offended by somebody else claiming to have a monopoly on Christianity that excludes them–it just shows, I guess, that what goes around comes around.</p>
<p>It amuses me that when Yale was founded it was much closer to Liberty University than it is to the Yale of today. When they hired their first professor of Hebraic studies early in the 19th century, he had to convert from Judaism.</p>
<p>Momknowsbest3</p>
<p>It sounds more like you have a lot of things on your mind regarding grief, loss of family and friends etc. Maybe find a good local counselor to help you process those life moments etc.
Take care of yourself.</p>
<p>“It amuses me that when Yale was founded it was much closer to Liberty University than it is to the Yale of today.”</p>
<p>Yes – it was meant to be a doctrinally orthodox institution in opposition to the secularized anarchy of Harvard.</p>
<p>Times do change!</p>
<p>I’m currently reading a biography of Robert Todd Lincoln, who attended Harvard in the 1860s. Harvard students were required to go to chapel every day and twice on Sundays. If they were away from campus on a Sunday, they were required to submit a note signed by a parent or other authority figure attesting to the fact that they’d attended a church service.</p>