No idea.
“Who built the wine presses? Developed the science of wine-making? “
The class was stumped.
“It was the Church,” I told them finally, grinning. They looked at the priest whose class I was teaching, utterly flummoxed. Could this be true?
“I can’t believe it,“ the observing German lay teacher was mildly embarrassed. “How can you not know this?” she asked them, shaking her head.
How can this be? The answer, of course, is that they haven’t been taught this. No one – not their parents, nor the Catholic schools they attend -- apparently ever bothers to teach what is glaringly apparent.
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