How Christianity Made the Irish an ‘Oppressed’ Group
You Think of yourself as Downtrodden? Have No Fear, this is where you’ll End Up.
The psychic cancer within. From Rosary Beads to Taking the Knee.
If you are coming from a place of congenital victimhood. Then you'll always be vermin in the eyes of others (as well as yourself)—as you are looking for scraps off the table—while wallowing among the other losers in the dirt. This is how the world sees you. Because you see yourself as being this...
Christianity made the Irish determine themselves—almost exclusively—by their victimhood and not by their triumphs. Hence why they told us in school that 1916 was a failure. When in reality it was an incredible success. So forever we must now see ourselves as a nation of defeated losers on the world stage and constantly align ourselves with the Victim Du Jour of the Current Thing. We are not allowed to remind ourselves that our ancestors survived and rebuilt the country back up from the Great Famine. On no, we are to psychologically remain gnawing on the damp grass for all eternity while hoping to find a preist to give us the Last Rites so we can flutter among the Jewish Sky Fairy in the clouds.
“Irish are the ******* of Europe lads”!
(Roddy Doyle did not use the term ‘Blacks’ in his original ‘problematic’ novel...)
I want nothing to do with the "900 years..." arm waving crowd. The Irish had an empire that conquered a large part of Britain in the 3rd to 5th centuries. Then the scourge of the Christ mind virus arrived and made them weak. Original Sin from the Middle East. You wave the Hamas flag today because you want to be just another professional loser. I don't "relate" to oppressed people's. Only congenital losers do that.
do you recall being told in school that your ancestors built back Ireland from the famine as a modern nation with a complex road and rail system within two decades of 1850? Including the first proper commuter rail system in the world? All designed and built by Irish companies and engineers who were at the forefront of techology at the time while the ones who left only became the scum of "Amerikay." Reduced to building Roman Catholic parishes.
Did they teach you in School the reason why the Scots speak Irish is that we Irish conquered the northern half of Britain?
That the only thing that prevented a total take over of Britain in the 4th century was the Danelaws. Otherwise the English and Scots would be speaking Irish today?
They did not even tell us we defeated the British Empire and brought it to its knees in 1921. We were not allowed that feeling. 'Pride is a sin..."
Keep rattling the poorbox for 'deh black babies..." and waiting for Baby Jesus to come back at'all at' all.."
Where your humanity...?
About time someone stated this obvious fact. The Irish should not think of themselves as victims of any other race or culture.
Even the version of Christian Catholicism that the Irish absorbed is implicated. If you want to see a robust Chrstianity in action go to Poland. Even though the Russians tried to impose secularism on the country after WW2, the Poles insisted on not only retaining their Catholicity but their practice of it has contnued to thrive, more than 30 years after the fall of Stalinism.
I for one am very glad that the Poles came here in such high numbers during the 'Celtic Tiger' years. They, and groups like Northern Presbyterians and Irish Travellers, have gone some way to redeeming the otherwise pitiful Irish character.