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Innocence and the Nuns’ Uninformed Myth-based Misguidance
The time was ripe for all manner of beliefs without evidence. How it got that way can only be based on personal speculation — mine.
Childhood is a time of innocence. In many areas of a child’s cultural consciousness, there is a void waiting to be filled by the sophistication of adults in their lives.
Teachers and parents play powerful central roles in shaping beliefs and personal views of self and others. It was to be that way for my friends and me, but we never knew how laughable some things would be until decades later.
Looking back, we would wonder how things so outrageous could have been accepted as fact and passed on to young and impressionable girls.
The ideas that were to be presented to us as guideposts of purity somehow fit into today’s distortions of American culture. It was almost a version of The Handmaid’s Tale. But then, as now, we accepted without question because the rules came from a higher authority — the nuns.
Friends in my 20s and 30s would laugh uproariously over what I would relate to them as “gospel” in my beginning years in high school, and I…
