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met: Your experience as a convert is not the experience of a cradle Catholic.

Cronos: i'm a cradle catholic and so are many others on this forum and our experience mirrors Judith's, not yours. Your experiences are, well, different.
Met: Not for the area I grew up in.

As I said, our experiences differ. Your experiences as a cradle C is quite, quite different from many of the Catholics here -- I don't deny your experience of course, I just point out:
1. Other's have had better experiences
2. your experience does not mean that the doctrine is such
3. your experience does not mean that the majority of folks are like that -- as I said, if a foreigner lived only in Manhattan and thought that represented America, he'd be wrong. If he met another foreigner who lived in downtown San Franscisco and compared notes and said "aha -- another one with the same experience" and concluded that all Americans were like that, they'd both be wrong.