I am not going through RCIA, but since I am fairly well informed and all but-confirmed, I merely had to sit through a 1.5 hour class. My BF attended with me, out of idle curiousity, and I had to kick him more than once. The main message that the others walked out of the meeting with was that God wants us to be happy. It seemed that any point I made would be too far over their heads.
It's issues like this that make one realize that ignorant Catholics abound, sadly.
Well, I think one of the purposes of converts is to stir things up a bit . . . < g >
The way I explain it is that (1) folks who have had something from the cradle don't always fully appreciate the value of what they've got, and (2) converts had to get off their duffs and make a decision to convert, so they have to have done some investigation and hard thinking. . . otherwise why bother?