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This might dovetail with the reason why most satanists (of the LaVeyan variety) are catholics. Very few of my satanist friends were not raised catholic, and indeed the rituals are basically just pastiches of catholic ones. Not being raised with any religion, satanism has no draw for me, since there is nothing to directly rebel from. All in all, though, the catholic church benefits from having its constituents ignore its doctrine, and this may be one of the reasons for imposing an at-face-value impossible and draconian doctrine itself -- to encourage the opposite behavior.

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I'm guessing it's because Catholic girls (and let's not forget the Catholic guys) traditional come out from a culture which (despite the stereotype to the contrary) is not sexually repressive. America, lest we forget, was founded by puritans (the ancestors of the modern day lberal) -- the Catholics came over later.

Anyway, Frank Zappa's song "Catholic Girls" would probably have had been a better choice of a lead-in for this story.

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