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Secular Republic?

  • 23-05-2008 12:31pm
    #1
    dereko1969
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    This is more of a secularist rant than anything else, perhaps it should be in the politics board (mods move if you wish) but this
    http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/0523/breaking33.htm
    really annoys me, the head of our State and armed forces going on a jolly with more members of the Defence Forces than are in Chad (with the head of the Chad mission who I would have thought would have more important things to be doing) to a fake shrine to a specific religion to a cermony that was designed for the French and Germans not to invade each other again. AAARGH!
    have a nice weekend.


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  • #2
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    I'd be less concerned about people enjoying a trip to a shrine if we didn't have to fund 500 of our military alright!

    Or course, we don't know - it may only be subsidised and the trippers are paying the bulk themselves. As for Mary McAleese, lets face it she's catholic, and head of the state, she might as well show her face. Someone was always going to represent the nation and Dustin can't do everything. ;)

    I'm amused by the term "International Military Pilgrimage".


  • #3
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,420 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


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    Dades wrote: »
    I'm amused by the term "International Military Pilgrimage".
    Weren't they the Crusades?


  • #4
    Talliesin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,314 ✭✭✭Talliesin


    Dades wrote: »
    I'm amused by the term "International Military Pilgrimage".
    Why?


  • #5
    Zillah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    One of the posts in this thread explains it, and its not mine or yours, so even if you guess randomly you've got a 1/3 chance of getting it right.


  • #6
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Talliesin wrote: »
    Why?

    Because it was a humourous phrase?


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  • #7
    lostexpectation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    of course you have to figure out if we're a republic first

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055187868


  • #8
    Talliesin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,314 ✭✭✭Talliesin


    Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »
    Because it was a humourous phrase?
    In which way?

    It's a pilgrimage of military personnel from around the world. What's funny?


  • #9
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Because, as robindch said above ^, it could be another (funny!) term for the Crusades?


  • #10
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    i got banned on the military forum for suggesting that..


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