Ireland's sons turn their backs on the priesthood

[White Horse]

No. I'm a former seminarian, but I am now an atheist, married and with two kids.

A bit like St. Paul in reverse.

[Radix]

So Cato, you're an atheist who believes in marriage? A believer in the lover, the beloved and the love between them? What a blessed Trinity you have going on there.

[Cato]

A bit like St. Paul in reverse.

Except that I haven't started stoning christians... yet!

[dresden8]

You have me there...

What effect do you think this coming manpower crisis will have on Irish society?

I don't know, it may make Africans more acceptable to the oul'one vote.

However, if the economic downturn turns really nasty (which is looking increasingly more likely) there could be a severe turn to the right.

When I say right I mean Nazi fascist type elements, they're out there waiting for the disillusioned and hopeless young.

As time goes on we could very quickly end up through the looking glass, to steal a metaphor.

All bets are off from here on in.

But that's for several other threads.

[TradCat]

We will need fewer Priests in the future as there will be fewer Catholics. I quite like the idea of a down-at-heel humble church.

[Cato]

So Cato, you're an atheist who believes in marriage? A believer in the lover, the beloved and the love between them? What a blessed Trinity you have going on there.

What made you think that atheists mightn't believe in marriage and love? I'm not a materialist, I'm a philosophical naturalist.

[Fr. Hank Tree]

Religious nutjobs can handle paedophiles, they can handle blacks.

This comment is just plain, straight out ignorant.

[SideysGhost]

I don't know, it may make Africans more acceptable to the oul'one vote.

However, if the economic downturn turns really nasty (which is looking increasingly more likely) there could be a severe turn to the right.

When I say right I mean Nazi fascist type elements, they're out there waiting for the disillusioned and hopeless young.

As time goes on we could very quickly end up through the looking glass, to steal a metaphor.

All bets are off from here on in.

I really don't think so. In fact I think that's just more fearmongering propaganda by the establishment to scare people into line and maintain the status quo.

I think far too many people have had their eyes opened the last few years, I think far too many people now see the way this society is really run and for whose benefit, they see just who the real enemies of the Irish people really are. And it's not blacks or jews or poles.

It's Fianna feckin Fáil and all vermin associated with that rotten ship of fools and crooks.

Mindless guff and yelling that alternative parties are somehow in some unspecific way fascist or racist or even anti-Irish won't distract people any more, or scare them back into line behind "de Party". People are wise to all that nonsense now.

[Scipio]

Maybe Celtic Christianity will make a comeback.

[mr_anderson]

Ireland's sons turn their backs on the priesthood

Ohhh c'mon, am I the only one to read that headline a certain way ?