I remember my mother’s irritation when my aunt converted to Catholicism on the death of her husband. She claimed that Catholicism is for those who want others to do their thinking, as opposed to Protestantism, which she reckoned requires you to square your acts with your own conscience, not somebody else’s idea of what’s right or wrong. However simplistic and bigoted this view may be, it has to be said that there are always fully-fledged jerks in expensive robes who seem determined to prove her right. Step forward the Irish bishops.
For any one you unfamiliar with that particular variant of Christianity known as Roman Catholicism, it involves – over and above depicting as white a man who, if he actually existed, certainly wasn’t – lots of little demigods called “saints”; women considered as second-class citizens, some of whom dress in burqas (called “nuns”); a personality cult around a theocrat …
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