(February 26, 2016 at 12:49 pm)abaris Wrote: Ireland, by far, was one of the worst countries when it comes to institutionalised abuse. For decades it was the closest thing to a catholic theocracy, Europe ever saw in modern times. Not even Franco's Spain was as bad in that department.
This makes headlines for quite some time now. Since Ireland shrugged of religious domination, more and more of these stories surface.
As far as we know. We don't hear very much about Catholic sex abuse cases from non English speaking countries do we?
I would assume Franco made use of monks and nuns to look after orphans. And with all monks and nuns there is an element of sexual repression and frustration. You were a Catholic school girl Abarais. Did the nuns ever talk about how people who had sex before marriage would go to hell?
Do you agree that one of the reasons it happened was because of the population's complicity in it? It gave the state less to worry about, and likely people didn't care about the well being of "good for nothings" anyway.
It seems that the progressive/liberal "pulse" in Ireland (for all sorts of issues) didn't really exist when much of this happened. I am not sure a JFK or RFK could be elected there, and an equivalent was certainly never produced.
I think it's apparent why the Church was so dominant in Irleand. People valued/respected it, because it appeared to advocate for the people against English/Protestant exploitation and domination.
Funnily enough I have heard the famous Irish "Sexual repression" is fairly recent in it's history and directly is linked to the growing use of the English language. In middle ages, when gaelic culture and language widely used, many people ignored churche's decrees on sex, and were very.. shall we say... free in their passions
.Just something I read somewhere..
