You have revealed your complete lack of knowledge of the history of Ireland. If you don't think public hangings and floggings for the sin of saying the rosary, attending mass, or teaching catechism in hedgerow schools and even for wearing the color green isn't terrorism you are emotionally bankrupt.
Of course this is WAY off the topic of this thread, but I mention it only in passing and then must get to my work of the day.
I learned from a good Irishman that the Irish “jigs” were actually dances which conveyed messages, (many of them of catechetical or spiritual in nature) without them being detected as such. This is another genre of “hedgerow catechetics”.
It was told to me that it was a similar way of communicating as the native Americans did with smoke signals.
I was then given a demonstration of some of the
“jigs” and the messages that they were meant to convey.
Fascinating.
May the road rise up to greet you, may the wind be always at your back.
A complaint like that coming from a Catholic?
Would that be not as bad or worse than burning someone at the stake for heresy against the Catholic church doctrine?
Or threats of ex-communication, which effectively, in the church's eyes, damns someone to hell for ETERNITY?
well that’s why we have America, thanks to the Puritans
Yep. Those Irish RCs had it tough, but they usually gave as good as they got from the Orangeman.