What happened to the #Church in #Ireland?
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What happened to the #Church in #Ireland? A theory from John Waters:
“Because Irish Catholicism developed through centuries of poverty, and offered Christ as a comfort to those who had little else in their lives, the link in the Irish imagination between faith and consolation became almost absolute. Although nobody had actually expressed it like this, it naturally followed that, when we became more prosperous, Christ could be allowed some time off.”" | nitter
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What happened to the #Church in #Ireland? A theory from John Waters:
“Because Irish Catholicism developed through centuries of poverty, and offered Christ as a comfort to those who had little else in their lives, the link in the Irish imagination between faith and consolation became almost absolute. Although nobody had actually expressed it like this, it naturally followed that, when we became more prosperous, Christ could be allowed some time off.”" | nitter
https://nitter.net/michaelbd/status/2017627374515278055#m@mpjgregoire this probably generalises: economic growth, in any community, shifts one's perspective from the "least of these" column towards the "eye of the needle" column.
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What happened to the #Church in #Ireland? A theory from John Waters:
“Because Irish Catholicism developed through centuries of poverty, and offered Christ as a comfort to those who had little else in their lives, the link in the Irish imagination between faith and consolation became almost absolute. Although nobody had actually expressed it like this, it naturally followed that, when we became more prosperous, Christ could be allowed some time off.”" | nitter
https://nitter.net/michaelbd/status/2017627374515278055#m@mpjgregoire I wouldn't buy into that too deeply. I'd pin it on the laundries, abuse scandals, and the church being too close to the state.
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