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Originally Posted by Burning Down
Ireland is mostly Catholic, right? As far as I know divorce is a sin or something... that's why Henry VIII went and started his own religion (Anglicanism), so he could divorce all his wives.
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That's an understatement. Or it was, until we started getting a lot more ethnicities in; I think there may be more muslims than Catholics in Ireland now. Nothing wrong with that, just sayin. But yeah, as far as the Catholic/Protestant divide, the former is in the majority in the south while north of the border they're mostly proddys.
Yeah, divorce is looked on as a sin. "What God has put together let no man put asunder" and all that. Interesting to see that even when we did get divorce here it was only by the slimmest of majorities, something like 51-49. Not anywhere near as conclusive as you would have thought.
The Catholic Church had a massive sway over Ireland, to the point that if a priest was accused of something, and almost if you had video evidence of him doing it he'd be believed just because he was a priest. That fear/respect is what led to the huge and shameful revelations in the past year or so about clerical abuse here. Priests were untouchable (but not untouching it would seem...)
