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Could Ireland be restored?

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Could Ireland be restored?
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RE: Could Ireland be restored?
April 28, 2016 at 7:14 pm
Others would say, Ireland has moved on from a near theocracy to joining the civilized world. You may want to read up on what happened in Irish Orphanages during your kind of golden age. It's the most glaring example of what happens when any religion is allowed to run unchecked.
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RE: Could Ireland be restored?
April 28, 2016 at 7:20 pm
Quote:As it stands.. how likely is it Ireland could "turn back the clock" and be restored to being a truly Catholic nation?

Once people wise up they rarely go back to being superstitious shits.  Maybe if your fucking church hadn't been butt-fucking every child in sight they wouldn't have made themselves into pariahs?

Something to think about.
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RE: Could Ireland be restored?
April 28, 2016 at 7:21 pm
The the OP. Religion is bad. Believing in woo is not helpful.
Science and our secular morality via laws is the only way forth.

Not perfect, but a lot more just and less corrupt.
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RE: Could Ireland be restored?
April 28, 2016 at 7:32 pm
(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 Sad

Nope you can blame that on the priests that touch little boys and girls the Ireland had enough of the catholic church and
the pope is scum along with his priests.
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RE: Could Ireland be restored?
April 28, 2016 at 7:53 pm
I strongly suspect that ErinGoBragh is True Christian.

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RE: Could Ireland be restored?
April 28, 2016 at 7:53 pm
(April 28, 2016 at 7:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I strongly suspect that ErinGoBragh is True Christian.  

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RE: Could Ireland be restored?
April 28, 2016 at 7:54 pm
(April 28, 2016 at 7:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I strongly suspect that ErinGoBragh is True Christian.  

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RE: Could Ireland be restored?
April 28, 2016 at 7:55 pm
(April 28, 2016 at 7:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I strongly suspect that ErinGoBragh is True Christian.  

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Well, you were right.
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RE: Could Ireland be restored?
April 28, 2016 at 7:58 pm
(April 28, 2016 at 6:46 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: What lead you to believe that ATHEIST forums was the best place to ask this question?

Because he's a dirty dirty sock.
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RE: Could Ireland be restored?
April 28, 2016 at 8:45 pm
(April 28, 2016 at 7:58 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote:
(April 28, 2016 at 6:46 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: What lead you to believe that ATHEIST forums was the best place to ask this question?

Because he's a dirty dirty sock.

A sock masturbating into itself. No wonder it's so dirty.
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