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The nun who destroyed Germaine Greer's faith

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I remember especially Sister Eymard who tried to teach me the philosophical proofs of the existence of God, and thereby destroyed my faith completely because she didn't know them.

I think it is important to separate Catholicism from conventism. To be a Catholic is one thing. To be a convent girl is another. I am still a Catholic, I just don't believe in God. I am an atheist Catholic - there are a lot of them around. One thing lapsed Catholics do not do is go in for an "inferior" religion with less in the way of tradition and intellectual content.

Germaine Greer looks back fondly on her strange, sex-obsessed school days as a convent girl

Richard Evans Lee
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I know a thing or two about Germaine Greer's schooling. She was not only a precocious child but a rude and disobedient one. In primary school she had a particular aversion to authority, especially Church authority. She constantly distinguished herself by talking and arguing constanty and testing the limits of school rules, such as dress codes. (One photograph I saw shows a large cohort of girls in a particular grade. All but one wears socks in a particular shade of blue; Germaine has them in another shade.) One account I have heard claims that, on one of the many occasions when Germaine had been misbehaving in class, the elderly teaching nun (possibly one "Mother Rose") hurled another girl's wooden pencil case (not an insubstantial object) at her in frustration. Germaine allegedly ducked and the pencil case broke. Both the girl and Germaine burst into tears, causing the harried nun to exclaim: "Why are YOU crying? I'm the one who should be crying!"

Posted by: Wulfilia | September 28, 2005 2:14 PM

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