Faithiness

I had originally signed up to attend the previous quarter's open house, at Providence--but forgot about it and rescheduled when I noticed the missed calendar event.  I informed Providence that I was a person of good will, interested in learning more about the school; they pleasantly acknowledged my rsvp.

Judging from the comments section, most Providencers think critical commentary from outsiders should not happen:  They have the right, supposedly as a matter of good-neighborly decency, to request outsiders not comment on their community.

When outsiders do comment, their views can be dismissed sight unseen--say the reactionary and closed-minded many:  They can automatically be assumed ill-motivated.  (Catholic Church, tautologist's wonderland.)

The Church inculcates a harshly negative disposition to atheists and to those who leave the faith.  The person drifting out of the church unconsciously adopts a feeling of self-contempt, the view that leaving = failure--that removing oneself socially from one's church is logically required after the abandonment of faithiness. 

To the non-believer, such assumptions can resemble arbitrary, institutionally self-serving memes, magnetizing the whistleblower.

People who reject Catholics' claim to moral superiority perceive Providence Academy a mild provocation, justifying probing public consideration.  Hence the recent grating of the tectonic plates.

The existence of an institution such as Providence--a newish thousand-student state-of-the-art ambitious-middle-class 'traditionalist Catholic' K-12, only a suburb or two distant--feels anachronistic, even in its disneyfied manifestation. 

A community in possession of the supreme truth--a Truth that must be permanently shielded from contradiction or probing inquiry.  An Ivy League-pointing community which values submission and not asking questions.