Enoch Burke turns up to school again despite sacking - read OP before posting

’If you don’t give me a piece of paper telling me I have to do something, then I won’t do it and you can’t make me’. Sounds like a teacher in an Irish school alright. Rules and regulations but no humanity.
Trans people have been around since the year dot. Refusing to acknowledge them or making laws to criminalise them, as some countries are doing, isn’t going to make them disappear or no longer exist.
Burke lives on his own planet of black and white, right and wrong, the rest of us are in the real world.

The kids came after, I would expect; so its just the two to begin with. They will have indoctrinated the kids.

They're evangelical, and probably not in communion with anyone else at all.

Thank you for that.

I've just googled '' evangelism '' It seems to be based on Three E's, - Engagement, Empathy and Explanation. I don;t believe that Enoch was showing much Empathy in his manner of dealings with his superior on pupil.

https://www.modernreformation.org/resources/articles/the-mod-the-three-es-of-evangelism?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw3P-2BhAEEiwA3yPhwC5MjRQApMJ5Ylo5xk28szNl2fuwCyXoux-2sJqDqJvCIwiMdCRBNRoC2EMQAvD_BwE

I wonder does Enoch believe in Transubstantiation 🤔

If they have family but converted to whatever level of Christianity they are then I’d say it’s reasonable enough to assume other members of the extended family don’t share the their views and certainly don’t want to get too close to any fallout.

Well we’ve certainly seen the “engagement” piece time and time again - I’ve seen no “empathy” and their “explanations” rarely make any sense- so I think we can safely say that their version of evangelism is a concentrated form of aggressive “engagement” - and that’s about it

Not a bit, even if they did share some views they wouldn’t want their lives tainted by that carry on

I went to a catholic school run by priests. This was in the 80's. The was a guy in my glass with a name that could be used for guys but is mainly used for girls. He asked for everyone to call him by another name on his first day. Everyone did.

Apparently they would call people by a different name back then. It just had to fit with the churches idea of gender roles.

They are all peaceful until they get a sniff of power. Every country with a dominant religion you will find that religion are cnts. Not just the ones people always pinpoint like the Christians and Muslims but the Hindus, Buddhists and all the others we think of as benign are cnts.

Father-of-two Michael Cleary was peddling that line on the radio for years. The RCC objection to condoms has got nothing to do with their effectiveness or ineffectiveness, it's "Because Pope Paul VI said so".

I remember we had a jesuit for a retreat once and he was probably the most open minded of them all. He stuck to church rules but still allowed a certain amount of leeway.

My school was run by priests. About 50% of my teachers were priests. Every lesson started with a prayer which is why I can to this day still recite the Hail Mary in French, Latin, Irish and English.

We'd have multiple retreats a year. There was one done by one of the local parish priests where he said that if we had "problems" with members of the opposite sex, our own sex or with animals we could tell him in confession.

Our sex and relationships education was a 3 hour session with a young catholic couple. They made sure to tell us that there were three people in every marriage. The man, the woman and God. There was no actual discussion about sex or relationships, just how it was very important to be spiritual and keep religion in the relationship. I remember them telling us about how they met each other at a retreat in glendalough. To be honest, they seemed sweet and very earnest but they'd definitely drunk the kool-aid.

Youth defense also had session with us.

And there were the daily religion classes. In which we were told that being gay was unnatural and therefore God hates it. Sex for pleasure was wrong. It should only be for procreation. Masturbation is wrong because it's for pleasure and should only be for procreation (I distinctly remember the phrase "Thou shalt not spill the seed of life"). Condoms interfere with God's plan for creating life and therefore it's preventing life from being created and is akin to killing someone, but at the same time, not as bad as actually killing someone. Trans people were mentioned. the gist was it's against God's plan so it's wrong. Also, interfering with sexual organs was bad, because it prevented you from procreating.

The amount of **** we were told is ridiculous. It seemed normal in the 90's because it's all I knew. But nowadays it just seems bizarre.

It's why I'm against religious schools. By all means have religious education outside of school but in school kids should be taught facts. And there will be kids who are gay or bi or trans in school. They shouldn't be told that they're unnatural by a teacher. They shouldn't be told that they're offending god just by existing.

It's almost like he and his family have demonstrated zero respect for the legal process and have done their best to disrupt it. Most judges were barristers previously, and barristers need a good relationship with judges even just for administrative things like granting adjournments. Antagonising most of the High Court judges isn't a recipe for success.

From the article above:

"Simeon Burke himself was removed by gardaí from the Court of Appeal in March last year. He was later convicted of a public-order offence, but his conviction was quashed on appeal."

It won't be on his CV, but every barrister, lawyer, solicitor will know of this family and their shenanigans.

It's a pity as I'd say he would make a good barrister.

Exactly. They don't seem fit for employment. The taxpayers have had to shell out too much already due to them.