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  • #152
    realdanbreen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,066 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    Bumski wrote: »
    Would you object if your kid had a half an hour of information/formation on Islam instead of Christianity? (Or instead of whatever number of hours per day/week they currently receive on Christianity/RC)


    No problem whatsoever. In fact I think the cove all he main religionin secondary school.


  • #153
    realdanbreen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,066 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    nozzferrahhtoo wrote: »
    Atheist Ireland? Not sure any more. Although still a member I am now no longer supporting any role where I have access to that information (I used to be the membership officer AND The webmaster so I could have told you then). Its three figures anyway unless some major changes have happened. And we are a part of the Atheist Alliance International Group which has many many more. The conferences I helped organize and run in Ireland and Germany were both very well attended.

    Thnks for te reply Nozz. I am rushing ut to the pub to watch tjhe match, but I have a few more quesion when get a chance.


  • #154
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,396 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Shrap wrote: »
    I go to church as rarely as possible.
    Likewise, but in my capacity as an amateur pipe organist, I do inevitably end up going to the odd service. FWIW, the RCC's musical standards are crap in comparison with the traditional protestant standards. There's probably quite an interesting conversation as to why this might be, but a lot of it seems to come down to the way in which the church projects itself and how it implicitly tolerates, if not encourages, petty fiefdoms to arise - these based upon political expediency and connections rather than the more normal attributes of interest, ability, talent or musicality.

    As I posted somewhere recently, the church - viewed as surrealist performance art - can be a fascinating and weird thing to watch.


  • #155
    Shrap
    Registered Users Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    robindch wrote: »
    FWIW, the RCC's musical standards are crap in comparison with the traditional protestant standards. There's probably quite an interesting conversation as to why this might be
    My Ma said something about the RCC having changed the hymn tunes to some awful modern dirgey nonsense when they stopped doing Latin masses, but I have no idea what she was talking about. Might be something in that though - maybe someone else knows why the RCC hymns are so desperately boring?


  • #156
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,993 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    Shrap wrote: »
    why the RCC hymns are so desperately boring?
    Blame the Irish.
    Seriously though, I don't think singing by the congregation was ever really encouraged during the traditional Latin rite mass. If there was a psalm to be sung, there was a choir put there for that purpose.


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  • #157
    Shrap
    Registered Users Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    recedite wrote: »
    Blame the Irish.
    /QUOTE]

    Ha, that's really quite funny :) I like.


  • #158
    nozzferrahhtoo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,336 ✭✭✭nozzferrahhtoo


    realdanbreen wrote: »
    Thnks for te reply Nozz. I am rushing ut to the pub to watch tjhe match, but I have a few more quesion when get a chance.

    Anytime, but as I say I am now a more passive member of AI and AAI and not as involved or as informed as I once was. If you have more questions on THAT subject you could go to the AI AGM, or contact their committee through the website. Micheal Nugent also posts on this forum so you could probably send him a PM.

    Any questions you have about ME or my positions as expressed on here though, my time is yours.


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