Posted on 06/16/2023 9:31:19 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
First of all, apologies to all of you die-hard Fenians who are expecting this article to wax poetic about the green hills of Ireland or the nobility of the Irish spirit. Alas, it won't. This piece is about an entirely different species of Irish "pride."
Recently, I visited Ireland, both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and I came away very impressed by the friendliness of the people, the beauty of the landscape, and the prosperity and dynamism Ireland has achieved, despite a long history of poverty and relative isolation. I also found notable how omnipresent reminders are there of Ireland's struggle for independence. References to the 1798 and 1916 rebellions, for instance, are everywhere, as are memorials to the Irish who died in the struggle for self-rule.
When I got to Dublin, however, Ireland's capital and largest city, I was somewhat taken aback. Completely overshadowing displays of the Irish tricolor flag were displays of the pride flag – that is, the gay pride flag, as it used to be known. Given that June is pride month, that is not entirely surprising, especially when we consider that the White House was recently emblazoned with rainbow flags itself, but it was jarring when I compared my experience of Dublin with my travels in the rest of Ireland, where (with the notable exception of Unionist parts of Northern Ireland) the Irish and EU flags always got top billing. I chalk this up to Dublin's urban sophistication (some would call it dissipation), which, in big cities everywhere, seems to breed broader acceptance of, and even bellicose advocacy for, "alternative lifestyles." So be it…
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Proverbs 16:5 Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
Proverbs 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 16:19 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Personally I like when the enemy proudly identifies itself. I know the places and people to avoid. And it helps for SHTF preparations
Same idiots who want to do away with Ireland’s cows.
Ireland has a Michael Fitzpatrick And Patrick Fitzmichael problem.
Just a couple decades ago Ireland was one of the most catholic and conservative countries of Europe.
What happened?
They imported a bunch of Earth’s problem children, don’t you know.
As a famous Irish-American once observed:
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
--Ronald Reagan
Ireland. Embracing this society ending perversity and importing third world violent Muslims to breed out the Irish. Very sad.
With education and the European Union both being Leftist in philosophy, Ireland was poised to shift to the Left if and when circumstances provided an opening. Then, sadly, the sins of the Catholic Church in Ireland provided such an opening in the form of definitive and detailed revelation of clerical sexual abuses and harsh policies in charitable institutions for minors.
As if a dam had fallen, support for the Catholic Church in Ireland collapsed, as did political support for conservative policies and the leaders aligned with them. As elsewhere, the bishops of the Catholic Church apologized but were unable to make sufficient amends or explain if and how reforms would mean that such abuses would never recur.
With the faithful painfully aware of the Church's pink priest mafia problem and that it has not been addressed, few are now willing to trust the clergy with their children or to look to them for moral guidance. And with the equivocal and Leftist Pope Francis in the Vatican, potential conservative and traditionalist reformers in the Catholic Church are suppressed, not just in Ireland, but almost everywhere else.
I think it’s odd to have ‘pride’ about anything you didn’t accomplish through your own efforts.
I’m DARN *glad* to be an American. And Irish. But “proud”? Why? My mom happened to be here, my family happened to come from somewhere, nothing I did, any more than the Christian salvation. I’m *proud* of my education, the fact I wooed and won a wonderful woman, of skills and accomplishments, of things I put the time and effort and discipline into.
Ben Doone and Phil McAvity.
Oh man, that’s a good one. I can hear the Irish brogue in my head as I read it.
What profits a nation to give its soul to the devil. We ate finding out. Misery self-identifying as pride and gay.
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