Thanks Ted...I'd be glad to be your friend.
To add to the irony of that thread, I was raised in a Protestant family who had little to no church upbringing other than a very, very simple and basic knowledge of Christ (my parents are not church-goers.) I was strongly Agnostic during my teenage years and did not come closer to Christ until I entered the Marine Corps. When my wife and I started having children, we decided to raise them in "her" (the Catholic) church. We went to Mass off and on for several more years when she realized that she'd been baptized, but never confirmed. I knew that I'd never received either baptism nor confirmation. Four years ago, we took care of those details. I used to have some very false, pre-conceived notions about the Mother Church, and all were based on ignorance (my own) and twisted facts.