www.belfastlive.co.uk/.../mum-autistic-child-12-hurt-27033456
A twelve-year-old boy, from the Protestant end of Derry, was attacked by Youths asking him whether he supported Celtic or Rangers. He was diagnosed with Autism, and was placed in instant panic.
its funny irish always blame britain for the violence in ireland and claim "england started it" when infact england did nothing and they started killing each other over their religion, which is the exact same religion anyway if they didnt realise lol then british troops had to stand in the middle of it to stop a the killings of civilians they was doing.
in the uk we dont really have religion.... we have it, but its not important... so we dont get it one bit why ireland is like that. especially seeing as its all just christianity, its not supposed to be at war with itself.... id understand if it was like... in greece or something and orthodox vs catholicism seeing as catholicism ruined byzantium and got most of the greeks wiped out. but thats the only real justification for christianity against christianity.
I know what you mean and I can understand your sentiment given the rise of secularism over the years but Protestantism for better or for worse was an English invention stemming from Henry VIII being frankly a bit of a kn*b (after you realise lack of male heir falls on the father who is responsible for the X or Y chromasome of the child, and he just wanted a swift out so he could try again with a new woman after beheading a few for no fault of their own) also it has always benefitted England to subjugate it's neighbours it might not have always kept it's foot on the gas pedal but in historic terms yes in actual fact England TECHNICALLY did start it. However I am with you, even as I am from a Catholic background it is
all just christianity,
afaic for all intents and purposes. When you consider the greater difference to other religions.
Anyways I've gotten off track - a wee bit. Really TBH I thought you might appreciate this skit by Dara Ó Briain on the topic of Prot' meets Cath' in a wedding.
Protestantism for better or for worse was an English invention stemming from Henry VIII being frankly a bit of a kn*b
I think a lot of lutherans would take issue with that. I’m assuming you meant to say Anglicanism?
Protestantism for better or for worse was an English invention stemming from Henry VIII being frankly a bit of a kn*b
I think a lot of lutherans would take issue with that. I’m assuming you meant to say Anglicanism?
^ probs my bad, i tend to get sidetracked and go into all the topics i see in a text lol
kinda like chasing all the side quests in games instead of sticking to the main story quest.
... i kinda have a urge to side track myself more by agreeing religion itself can be boring, aside from eastern religions like hinduism and buddhism but thats probably because they are different to a western person like me so theres more to discover about them, plus they more match philosophy rather than western religion and philosophy is more interesting. aside from that the only real interesting part of religion is instead the history as history is more interesting, but rather not the history of religion but history in general, but you cant really go into history without religion being there to get in the way lol
I think if this were to be discussed further it's better to be it's own thread splitting hairs on religion so as not to accidentally hijack one about news of an anti-autist hatecrime.
Not that I would join it because really I just stepped back in for a slither of a moment to share the Comedian vid to try help bring the mood back up, religion as it's own conversation gets very understimmulating very quickly for me though, so I'll pass.
Not really. The Reformation birthed lots of smaller Protestant dominations around the same time. There were lots of contributing factors. A push to translate the Bible into new languages along with the printing press making it much more available, massive improvements in literacy, and of course the church‘s own very bad behaviour. When they started selling indulgences in a big way, The so-called licenses to sin, they lost a lot of moral credibility in peoples eyes.
what tended to happen is in cities and nations that supported the religious descent different churches sprang up which had similar but different ideas and tended to have different figureheads. But Martin Luther in Germany was by far and away the most famous figurehead. But in reality each nation had its own particular flavour of reformed Protestant church, either that or underground churches.
anglicanism is unusual in so far as the king not only permitted and even endorsed the Reformation, but actively promoted it and declared himself to be the head of the new church.
