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Orange Lodges in the South

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    #62
    Benny_Cake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭Benny_Cake


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    owenc wrote: »
    My mother is Catholic, and it seems that everything is beat into her from her family and their is no freethinking i wish she would leave that organisation, but no. She can't see through it.

    If she's a NI Catholic your Mum's reluctance to leave wouldn't be so much about her love of the RCC as it would her affinity with her 'tribe' IYKWIM. She may also fear being ostracized by her RC friends and family which wouldn't be unusual.

    It's a little more complicated up there.

    True,I'd imagine it would be difficult in the North for a Protestant who wanted to become a Catholic as well.


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    #63
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    I hope so myself by the way my original post might of read as being sarcastic but no I think the church should be ashamed to try and dictate peoples basic human rights.

    Exactly but the church of Ireland is Just as bad my dads friends daughter can't get her baby baptised because she isn't married... I think churches needy grow up and focus on modern society or else they'll die out


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    #64
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    Benny_Cake wrote: »
    True,I'd imagine it would be difficult in the North for a Protestant who wanted to become a Catholic as well.

    That would br even worse! On my mothers side my grandfather converted and his brothers and sisters havnt spoken to him since!


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    #65
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Benny_Cake wrote: »
    True,I'd imagine it would be difficult in the North for a Protestant who wanted to become a Catholic as well.

    It's not so much that people want to convert imo (some do of course). People usually convert because they've found a partner who has made it a condition of the relationship.

    Converting to the 'enemy' religion was a fairly taboo thing to do - probably still is but maybe a bit less so these days.


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    #66
    Benny_Cake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭Benny_Cake


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    It's not so much that people want to convert imo (some do of course). People usually convert because they've found a partner who has made it a condition of the relationship.

    Converting to the 'enemy' religion was a fairly taboo thing to do - probably still is but maybe a bit less so these days.

    Yeah,I'd imagine it is mainly a tribal thing,and not so much people who hold strong beliefs over the doctrine of transubstaniation and issues of church governance.


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    #67
    jonniebgood1
    Registered Users Posts: 3,577 ✭✭✭jonniebgood1


    The thread has changed to a discussion on religion rather than a history or heritage topic. There is a forum for religion but I am closing this down here due to the nature of some of the posts. Posters should also note the references to religion in the charter.
    Moderator.


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