frostyjacks wrote: » Good Friday, a day of abstinence
Hotblack Desiato wrote: » For a small proportion of self-described christians, yes, but they're not exactly the target market of this ad are they? If they're so offended couldn't they 'offer it up' as my mother used to say - or maybe pray for the souls of the ad agency execs :rolleyes: NB christians are no longer a majority of the UK population so expect more reality and less unwarranted deference in future.
frostyjacks wrote: » It is, and will always be, a Christian country in it's values and tradition, if not expressly so on the census forms. It was more ignorant than offensive I think. But yes, I expect more of the same in future. That is the way society has gone.
norrie rugger wrote: » On this most holy of days I an partaking in a fine O'Hara's Pale Ale. Mmmmmm.... Sacrilegious
jimd2 wrote: » In all honesty.....who cares?
feargale wrote: » Oh my what bravado! And I won't be going to the Dog Show in Dublin this year because I have no interest in it. I want the whole world to know this because my opinion of the matter is very important. Amen.
feargale wrote: » Amen.
Hotblack Desiato wrote: » Grow up. Stop ridiculing people not of your religion for not being of your religion. Religion is a pox on humanity.
kylith wrote: » And yet here ye both are; caring.
frostyjacks wrote: » It is, and will always be, a Christian country in it's values and tradition [...]
feargale wrote: » . You grow up. Learn marksmanship before you draw from the hip. Bigotry is a bigger pox on humanity, but that only afflicts "the guys who disagree with me", never those who are just out of short pants and don't know how to walk away in a mature fashion, or those who are old enough to know better. Isn't that right, grown up one?
robindch wrote: » Did Jesus really approve of selling live Irish babies to the Yanks while hiding the dead ones in mass graves? Sure wasn't the Eternal Word of Christ as different back then?! :rolleyes:
frostyjacks wrote: » The scandal was certain women getting pregnant outside marriage. The state and religious institutions were only trying to clean up their mess.
frostyjacks wrote: » The scandal was certain women getting pregnant outside marriage. The state and religious institutions were only trying to clean up their mess. I didn't see many atheists making an effort. Easy to criticise others when you never made an effort yourself.
frostyjacks wrote: » The scandal was certain women getting pregnant outside marriage.
kylith wrote: » Sure, wasn't Jesus' own mother pregnant outside of marriage?
frostyjacks wrote: » Easy to criticise others when you never made an effort yourself.
robindch wrote: » As somebody once said, she wasn't the first Jewish girl in history to claim she got pregnant without having had sex.
LMFM wrote: Trim District Court has been told that a Garda Sergeant who carried out an inspection of a hotel in Trim on Good Friday last, found 120 people drinking alcohol. Sergeant Tom Mahon said that when he called to The Knightsbrook Hotel he witnessed 80 people drinking in the Swift Bar and a further 40 drinking in a separate bar at the hotel. The hotel was prosecuted for six counts of breaching the licensing laws on the 14th April. A solicitor for the defence stressed that it was a very well run and nice hotel. Judge Cormac Dunne replied that it may be a nice hotel and indeed a palace, but it had to obey the law. He added that what had happened was not an accidental event but in fact a commercially driven one. He imposed a fine of ?1,500 for permitting alcohol to be consumed on the premises and struck out five other summonses.