The Question of Religion

As we went about getting ourselves settled into this country, we had to fill in various forms. There seemed to be an undue amount of gravity around the question of religion. You can't just write "christian", because "they" don't know what that is. Apparently you are either a Catholic or you go in the category.

I wondered what the big fuss was and a travelling missionary kindly filled me in. It seems that if you write Catholic on your form, then a certain percentage of your income is taken and given to the catholic church.

If you don't want to pay this money, then you have to write in and say that you are not Catholic.