Really? Why? Catholics do a great job of separating the physical world from the spiritual one. I know. I've lived among them for many years.
Being very Irish on my father's side, so have I. Granted, I'll give you that most Catholics just plain don't care that they're Catholic (i.e. they call themselves Catholic but entirely ignore the religion on the whole, except for maybe going to mass occasionally out of guilt or whatever), but I wouldn't really call that separating the physical world from the spiritual. If you consider it to be a logical separation of two wholes, I guess I'd consider to be completely overlooking one whole in favor of another. What I meant by my earlier comment was more that I think when you get people who actually practice Catholicism regularly, they're very similar to your average protestant for the most part. All the Mexicans and Filipinos I know, for instance, have a lot of what you would seem to think typically protestant-style overbearing types in their family, though the families are basically all Catholic. The girls I work with always have tons of stories about that kind of thing given that they just don't care about living by rules, and are hence at odds with other family members who are the exact opposite. So yeah, I'm pretty sure I get what you're saying, we just sort of process it differently. It works out to the same fact I guess, which is that Catholics don't tend to be as religiously heavy-handed a lot of the time, regardless of whether or not that's because they logically separate different ideals or because they just don't care to follow most of what their religion actually says (a topic we can thankfully avoid since I'm not Catholic and you're not religious!).
Anyway... thread derailment, damn it. I'm sorry.
Look, I can be on topic!:
Yes, I agree with idol. We need to somehow get this Harry Potter behavior to work for our advantage. If we can get kids everywhere to become our horrible mutant zombie slaves, there's a good chance Overwritten.net will become the greatest website ever! The next podcast could have a contest where you get a free zombie child if you win! And you can control him with the Wiimote, zomg!
Somehow I don't think *my* novels are going to be very popular by comparison. Maybe I should put in more hookers. Or less hookers. Or Catholic schoolgirl hooker assassins.
... too much?
