Ireland Prime Minister tells Catholic church they aren't running the country anymore - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Sparkwire;32389736]Excuse me for my ignorance, but I have no clue what you mean by that. How do they prevent you from leaving? Can't you just...you know, leave?[/QUOTE] You literally cannot leave the Catholic Church in Ireland and have the Catholic Church no longer recognise you as Catholic. There used to be a very complicated way you could leave, and some people set up that website (CountMeOut.ie), where they showed you how to leave, but since then, the Catholic Church has changed it so you can no longer leave via that method.

[QUOTE=Caesar;32390136]You literally cannot leave the Catholic Church in Ireland and have the Catholic Church no longer recognise you as Catholic. There used to be a very complicated way you could leave, and some people set up that website (CountMeOut.ie), where they showed you how to leave, but since then, the Catholic Church has changed it so you can no longer leave via that method.[/QUOTE] Isn't that basically forcing a religion on to them? Sounds extremely illegal. But then again, the church doesn't care much for laws.

Let the whiskey do the talking.

[QUOTE=Caesar;32390136]You literally cannot leave the Catholic Church in Ireland and have the Catholic Church no longer recognise you as Catholic. There used to be a very complicated way you could leave, and some people set up that website (CountMeOut.ie), where they showed you how to leave, but since then, the Catholic Church has changed it so you can no longer leave via that method.[/QUOTE] I was baptised (parents :rolleyes:) and as far as I'm concerned the Catholic Church can get fucked. I do not practice religion, I do not consider myself a Catholic at all.

Really fucking interesting thread, good job Ireland!

[QUOTE=Alex_DeLarge;32386744]Jesus Christ, I was thinking of going there for my family but I never knew they were ultra religious. Fuck that. That's worse than where I live in the United States.[/QUOTE] To be fair it's not the fanatacism you get in the USA. As far as I've seem "identifying yourself as Catholic" means you go to mass at Christmas and generally speaking you don't firebomb the houses of gay people. Also on the school thing: there was a time when Ireland was ruled directly from Britain and it would've taken a very determined effort to manage Ireland worse than they did. The only reason schools were built at all, really, before 1920 is the Church decided that it was worth investing in. For all the horrible things that happened under the Vatican especially in the 20th Century it wasn't as if they had the reputation they went on to destroy by accident. While London was pretty much content to see Ireland starve a couple of times Catholic priests actually got up and did something even if the Vatican didn't. Edit: That whole thing made me seem like an apologist, which I'm not. Every policy and every idea I can think of that the Catholic Church had in the 20th Century was terrible as far as I can remember. Hell, in the 1947 when the Minister for Health wanted to give free healthcare to mothers and children the Church called him a communist and he lost his job.

Thank fuck I was born in Northern Ireland. My heart goes out to my southern brothers. <3 I was baptised as a baby as well but I've grown to have my own beliefs and not the ones that are forced onto me as a child. Pretty ironic.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;32386705]ha! ha! alcohol![/QUOTE]I thought it was referencing the troubles...