Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Catholicism

Holden starts talking about Catholicism after talking to the nuns near the end of chapter 15. He was kind of talking about how to tell whether or not he was Catholic and remembered some experiences with Catholics. The biggest thing that he said about it, in my opinion, was, "The thing was, you could tell by the way he asked me that he was trying to find out if I was Catholic. He really was....He was enjoying the conversation about tennis and all, but you could tell he would've enjoyed it MORE if I was a Catholic and all." This is totally true. People seem to enjoy talking to someone more if they have stuff in common. He seems to be annoyed by this but he's glad that the nuns didn't ask him about his faith. He seems pretty much the same about this topic.
I also enjoyed the part where he talked about Jesus. "I asked old Childs if he thought Judas went to Hell after he committed suicide. Childs said certainly. That's exactly where I disagreed with him. I said I'd bet a thousand bucks that Jesus never sent old Judas to Hell." This was a huge eye-opener to me. I didn't really care about what happened to him after he died because he wasn't important to me. This helps me understand that Holden might actually feel that there is a Jesus out there waiting to take him in even though this person knows that Holden has done some pretty bad things in his time. THINK ABOUT THAT PEOPLE. MAKES YOUR HEAD HURT, DOESN'T IT?! Well it shouldn't really.

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