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Help[Opinions] Re: Politician BA
in reply to a message by Genevieve
Can you and Tisiphone please knock it off with the anti-Catholic remarks? You're forgetting that some of the users here are Catholic. I realize this guy is a bad person, but I've met Catholics from English-speaking countries and most of them don't have names like his children. (Granted, my first name is very Catholic, but I'm not from an English-speaking country and where I come from people won't assume you're hyper-religious if you have a Catholic-sounding name.)
I'm sure most British Catholics don't even use names like Sixtus or Boniface...do they?
Are most British Catholics like Jacob Rees-Mogg and his wife?
I'm sure most British Catholics don't even use names like Sixtus or Boniface...do they?
Are most British Catholics like Jacob Rees-Mogg and his wife?
This message was edited 7/8/2017, 9:36 AM
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I am no more anti-Catholic than I am anti any other religion and I'm perfectly well aware that there are lots of Catholics on the board.
I do have pretty strong views on those who have huge families on the grounds of their religion, and I'm as entitled to those views as you are to any you might have on that or any other matter. I also find a grotesque hypocrisy in someone so vocal about his religion being a total stranger to the concept of Christian charity.
Jacob Rees-Mogg is representative of a particular kind of English Catholic that I find pretty repugnant as a matter of fact - a hangover from the Reformation. The novel Brideshead Revisited beautifully illustrates the type, and ostentatiously naming a string of children after popes and obscure saints is part and parcel of what he stands for.
I do have pretty strong views on those who have huge families on the grounds of their religion, and I'm as entitled to those views as you are to any you might have on that or any other matter. I also find a grotesque hypocrisy in someone so vocal about his religion being a total stranger to the concept of Christian charity.
Jacob Rees-Mogg is representative of a particular kind of English Catholic that I find pretty repugnant as a matter of fact - a hangover from the Reformation. The novel Brideshead Revisited beautifully illustrates the type, and ostentatiously naming a string of children after popes and obscure saints is part and parcel of what he stands for.
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Well-put.
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Genevieve is a practicing Catholic...
She was saying that tongue in cheek...as in that is a very Catholic name so she assumed he was Catholic.
That name is pretty much as old-school Catholic as you can get in the way that Paddy O'Brien is Irish...
She was saying that tongue in cheek...as in that is a very Catholic name so she assumed he was Catholic.
That name is pretty much as old-school Catholic as you can get in the way that Paddy O'Brien is Irish...
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