(April 28, 2016 at 6:37 pm)EringoBragh Wrote: We all know countries change. First they are one way, then they are another.
I love Ireland, but I am sort of sad about the direction it has chosen to take in the past 25 years or so.
They have legalized divorce, contraception, and now gay marriage. I get part of the reason this happened was the decline of faith among Irishmen and Irishwomen. But I have to think part of it was foreign international "colonialist" thinking.
People who thought the Irish were "backward" and needed to be "modern." That way of thinking is sort of offensive IMO, as if a group of people can't decide what is good for them.
As it stands.. how likely is it Ireland could "turn back the clock" and be restored to being a truly Catholic nation?
I want it to be so.... but I won't hold my breath
As someone who lived in Ireland, I really hope that they wouldn't do anything as stupendous as going back to the "Great Catholic" ages of Irelands history.
The direction it has chosen, is the direction that allow people to choose what they want to do with their lives, and the direction that disallow other people to control how other people shall be forced to live their lives.
You are seriously dillusional if you think that divorce, contraception and gay marriage is a step in the wrong direction.
And Irishmen are always busy saying how much they dislike England, so why do you want to keep an ancient cultural relic, that was passed on, forcefully.
