got you till age six, own you for life

[Guest guest]

So I just wanted to float this little conversational snippet by you guys and get

some reactions. So my nada has always been very anti-religion especially

organized religion, especially Catholic. Ever since I was little I can remember

that when the subject of Catholics came up she would always say - like a broken

record - about how the Jesuits had a saying about " give me a child till he's age

six and he's mine for life " . She'd say this with a dramatic flair like ooooo,

look how psycho those Jesuits were brainwashing those little kids, oh the

horror!

But here I'd be having felt controlled, smothered, and more brainwashed than I

knew from the beginning hearing her say this...and feeling sick. And I still

feel sick every time she says it. She said it today.

I've decided I want a really good come back next time she says it - something

that will answer the passive-aggressive implication in her statement which is " I

own your ass " . I'd like to say yeah what that saying refers to is a sin,

owning another human being is slavery and wrong. Just something to really

answer the subtle message.

Thoughts? And would this scenario squick any of you guys out or am I being

oversensitive?

Thanks,

P.S. - no offense meant to Catholics or Jesuits here...I'm not even sure that

saying was ever said by anybody outside of fiction, it was in Shogun I think.