Posted on 06/23/2018 6:00:46 PM PDT by marshmallow
LEICESTER, United Kingdom - Baptizing babies is a violation of their human rights, according to the former president of Ireland.
Mary McAleese, who served in the largely ceremonial role of president from 1997-2011, also said she would not attend the Aug. 22-26 World Meeting of Families taking place in Dublin.
She told the Irish Times the event, which Pope Francis will attend Aug. 25-26, will only serve as a “political rally” for the “reinforcement of orthodoxy.”
McAleese told the newspaper that by baptizing children before they have reached the age of reason, the Church is creating “infant conscripts who are held to lifelong obligations of obedience.”
“You can’t impose, really, obligations on people who are only two weeks old and you can’t say to them at seven or eight or 14 or 19 ‘here is what you contracted, here is what you signed up to’ because the truth is they didn’t,” she said.
Declaring that in the past “people didn’t understand that they had the right to say no, the right to walk away,” the former Irish president said “we live now in times where we have the right to freedom of conscience, freedom of belief, freedom of opinion, freedom of religion and freedom to change religion. The Catholic Church yet has to fully embrace that thinking.”
McAleese is a practicing Catholic who holds a licentiate in canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Her book Quo Vadis? Collegiality in the Code of Canon Law was published in 2012.
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Even worse, the president of Ireland at that time was none other than Éamon de Valera, one of the 1916 fighters.
Ireland’s government followed the pattern of the Weimar Republic, where the king is replaced by the president in a form of constitutional parliamentary democracy; so although the president does not execute the laws as the prime minister has the power to, all laws need his signature.
Apparently a lot of the bold IRA bombers, who killed innocents of all ages with their IE’s had trained in the Middle east.
They learned how to murder innocents from their Islamic brothers
And then they transplanted that antisemitism there, which was already a dogma of the left anyhow; when I was a youngster living in Ireland in the 70s, my late father could be openly Jewish, but I suspect that would not be the case today. The EU made that hatred metastasize on top of all that, with their non-stop anti-Israel propaganda and pushing of “secular” leftist doctrine.
Similarly, Sunday School would be considered child abuse because religion is being unloaded into the brains of children too young to assess it rationally.
The downside of waiting until youths were rationally aware might be the death of religion.
Ireland spent decades fighting the British for independence... and I’ve been wondering for a while what for. Gay marriage, abortion, and lunatic feminism.
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