text: Amen, JustMaybe!  We were even counseled to change the route we walked home from school to avoid merely passing by a -- gasp -- Methodist church, so as to not be "tempted" to indulge our curiosity by dropping in.  What a warped picture of a "loving God" we were given (pounded into our heads) and how impossible to reconcile with the post-Conciliar all-merciful, all-loving God revealed to us.  While it was possible to find real peace and joy prior to Vat II, there was so much suppression of our basic humanity necessary, to avoid getting on God's naughty list, and the institutional Church was so eager to provide the oppression and punishments as negative incentives!  Fr. Coyne's "Theology of Fear" indeed!