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Post by Jim on May 14, 2008 23:00:49 GMT
Nah Jim Ireland floated away from N.Ireland and kept itself until recently in stone age like times. Sounds a bit like us then. |
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Post by Wasp on May 14, 2008 23:03:47 GMT
Nah Jim we are still in the stone age. lol
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Post by earl on May 15, 2008 8:39:34 GMT
The above is specifically about Protestantism in Ireland. From the title, you just know it won't end well. Probably not, protestants in Ireland have a history of not faring very well there. The Anglicans did alright. They had the run of the place for a few hundred years. |
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Post by Shades40 on May 15, 2008 22:12:14 GMT
A Papist plot, is the Catholic church rich?
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Post by Blue Angel on May 16, 2008 15:46:54 GMT
Fox's book of Martyrs -one of the inevitable books you get faced with if you are stupid enough to say your family is Catholic when confronting evangelical groups or individuals. A useful book for characterising a period of persecution and extreme cruelty but it's relevance is sorely historical in highlighting how intolerance breeds hatred and suspicion. It has no immediate relevance I could see beyond that or it's role as a historical document for modern society. For my mind all large religions are effectively agents of social control, some more subtly and less oppressively than others and the books useful in reminding us of the consequences you face in theocractic societies for speaking against the perceived wisdom but beyond that it does not have relevance to political or social conditions now.
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