Magdalene Horrors in Ireland

[God of Mr. Hanky]

Denial does flow like a river from theists wherever reality is inconvenient, and it's wherever the lying fuckers have the power to get away with it.

You are a half-wit Poe and all-around shit-posting asshole, and you argue with people on this forum who have history degrees. Who shall I believe, so hard to decide /s

I deny none of it. I am on your side .

Ireland was a fucked up soceity for most of the 20th century. I just wonder what all factors at play there were.

There isn't enough space in a forum post to explain the full regression of events which fucked up Irish culture, but the reason why it was so religiously fucked up until so recently is on account of a long history of British dominance which did not end until recently for most of Ireland, and never has for its 6 northermost counties. Irish land was coveted by the English since they first set foot there because it is very rich, owing to the fact that it, unlike the rest of Britain and most Europe, was completely buried under ice during the most recent glaciation, ~10,000 years ago. This led the British to malign the more primitive Irish culture (which was so on account of very little inter-cultural isolation due to their geographic position, it would have had a similar effect on any group of people), forcing them off their rich lands on the East side to a nearly uninhabitable region of the West coast (see Oliver Cromwell on "To Hell or to Connaught!"). In the 19th century, the British engineered a mass famine by encouraging over-reliance on potatoes, which got hit with a catastrophic blight. The Irish could not legally own land, the British lords refused to hire them, and the only people there who didn't starve were those lords and their families. Millions of people emigrated, or starved. For those who survived, the only constant was their church, and that one was the same which St. Patrick had introduced to their ancestors during the 6th Century. The same during the violence all through the 20th Century, the secession of he Republic from the remaining 6 British-controlled counties, the hopeless and violent campaigns by Sinn Fein to reclaim those counties, and the harassment of Catholics who live in those counties. By British Protestant tradition, each year fresh Catholic rage is incited everywhere on that island during the parade of "Orange" idiots (Protestant William of Orange, who was credited for kicking the Catholic rulers out of Britain) through Belfast. This made Catholicism much more than a religion to the Irish, it was their cultural identity. Hateful oppression and relative geographic isolation is how you make a religious institution powerful beyond question with any cultural group.