Comments on: Rugby Match is Evil, American Monk Tells Limerick People

By: Bock

Bock — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:41:48 +0000

Frances — I don't expect priests to do anything except to stay out of my way and keep their hands off my children.

By: Frances

Frances — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:16:48 +0000

Christianity has been abused, mocked, and persecuted throughout the centuries. But the Church will last forever…. I am sure the friars know that they like Jesus will be persecuted for speaking the truth. The publicans, the rugby players and the politicans don't care about morals, the poor, or the faith but their only interest is in material wealth. At the end of the day the Friars are there for the people, the poor and disadvantaged and they speak the Truth. And by the way nobody rammed beliefs down my throat, but I choose to live a Christian life. It is up to you to do as you will, but if you walk into a Church on Sunday for Mass at Christmas or Easter, or expect a Priest to be there for your wedding, your childs baptism, your funeral..you should also respect the faith in its fullness or else just leave the Church completely. The problem in this country is that many so called Christians are not really Christians at all and we can definitely see this now with regard to this rugby match as well as many other things. The friars are only saying that if you are a Catholic, then be one..

By: Scotlyn

Scotlyn — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:58:43 +0000

Have they got some kind of a beardy, hoody, bespectacled monk cloning machine in there?

By: Cynical Joe

Cynical Joe — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:31:16 +0000

This public debate about Good Friday issue is a great development. Twenty years ago, I used to host a regular Good Friday party in Dublin, which got fairly rowdy, as the boys had nowhere else to go. But I took a lot of flak and a lot of 'who's yourman?' type stuff. Many people just didn't want to face the question; they just couldn't face a debate that might force them to articulate whether they actually believed what they pretended to, and why.
The exposition of the church as the world's largest paedophile ring has helped people to express their true opinions, and about time. So let's have the debate about why some people should be allowed to force their beliefs on others, and see where we come out as a society. What saddens me is that many people will go to Thomond Park on the day, but then invent some cowardly way of reconciling that fact with the religious beliefs that this society forces them to pretend they hold, such as saying "I am a sinner, forgive me".
I'll enjoy the rugby and I'll enjoy the thought that many people at the game will face a weekend of intellectual dishonesty and psychological trauma.
Will Leinster win? Is the Pope a paedophile?

By: Mairead

Mairead — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:33:56 +0000

You're right about Keith Earls being a fantastic role model, Bock.
He did it again today.
Great young fella.

By: bruno

bruno — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:10:09 +0000

There's something unsettling about these guys[monks].I've heard them air their views on this and other topics and waves of uncertainty,uneasiness revisit.I experience again those dreadful thoughts and feelings of my youth in catholic Ireland,feelings of inadequacy[guilt?] and vulnerability that I believed I had ditched .Beware .

By: liam

liam — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:42:42 +0000

I haven't told anyone to do anything sniffle…merely expressing a point of view which isn t meant to be inflammatory in any way …surely that's what a forum such as this is all about, I certainly don t mean to be patronising to anyone…I ve made my point and you re entitled to disagree with me as I am with you…can we leave at that

By: Sniffle

Sniffle — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:35:54 +0000

Hey Liam, but it’s okay for you tell us here how we should criticize and what words we should and should not use. Can’t figure out if your tone is patronizing or Taliban-like. Jesus Christ, grow up will you.

Bock my initial thought was the monks were on the side of the angels above in Moyross. Shining a light and doing good deeds and such.

By: FME

FME — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:55:59 +0000

Liam the thing is though, I think we have enough of our own hypocrite lunatics in this country ramming their beliefs down our throats without those foreign freaks aswell. They are only a role model to crazy old bats. The one on the left looks like he's havin a little fun with the hand in the pocket too.. friar fuckers, fuck off.

By: liam

liam — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:23:18 +0000

Thanks FME I m aware what a foreigner is. I'm only making the point that the issue has to do with a person of one belief telling others what to do and not nationality. And Rob I agree we re not quite a secular state yet [there are some constitutional issues which need to be addressed first for instance] but it is reasonable to suggest that the majority of the people of Ireland [particularly the youth] have far less tolerance with church interference in state issues and indeed we are, albeit slowly, 'finally becoming' a secular state.