Tim Cavanaugh opens his review of The Atheist: Madalyn Murray O?Hair, In God?s Country, with some amusing tidbits from his Catholic education:
Before the U.S. Constitution, before long division, before sentence diagramming, the teachers at Blessed Sacrament School made sure I absorbed three lessons: that John F. Kennedy, America?s greatest president, had been a Roman Catholic; that my left-handedness, a condition barely removed from mental retardation, would prevent me from ever achieving the sumptuously rounded, deftly tilting style of penmanship necessary for success in adulthood; and that Madalyn Murray O?Hair was, quite justly, the most hated woman in America.