Mine was 1970 in southeastern Ohio. I remember the contrasts mostly. It was the first I learned of snake handlers (from classmates family members in Appalachia) and picking up hitch hikers on the way home for Christmas break that where Hare Krishna converts. The class focused on the larger world religions, time lines, how religions forked into new belief systems. All this was quite different from what I’d been taught at Sunday school, Catechism and a public school with a heavy Mennonite influence.

I must have been in the same class in a different year.

Contratian – This seems not too much different than when I went home and quoted topics from a comparative religion class I took. It’s about the same time I learned about being chosen as the lightning rod in my group.

“Prayer is a substitute for complaining?” Yikes! When things get slow do you just try and inflame a comment? There are religions that would take deep offence at the sacriledge of that comment. I should probably be one of them.

And to besmirch “No Child Left Behind?” Senator Kennedy was just laid to rest yesterday.