I was raised catholic and the things that stick with me the most is the fear the nuns put into me. My worst was the surprise slap from behind by a nunzilla we called Monga woman because I was left handed. Now what I'm wondering is I'm agnostic but I don't know if I really believe there is no divinity or is the fear still in me if I completely deny god that Monga woman might come out of the shadows and give me a backhander
I think knocking left handed behavouir out of kidswas pretty general and not limited to nuns. My sister and I were left handed. She was a boarder at a chairty run girls school and I went to a normal state run day school and both of us were forced to go right handed which more than 50 years on does not feel natural to us. Churches and especially the Roman Catholic church seek to bind their members to them. The techniques they employ are many and various but bear little to the teaching of Jesus ( who I believe was influenced by Buddhist philosophy , which was quite possible as he lived on the "slik road" from the East). Relgions are human constructs which at times display both the best and worst of humanity. Organised religions are best avoided. Whatever I believe I keep to myself.
Here the abuse of nun is infamous in the residential school where First Nations children were sent to de-Indian them, many they de-Indianed them to death.
that is horrendous and the nuns here in Ireland in the magdalene laundry's for wayward girls did the same things