The Angelus

[Shallowhal]

I think it's over 70s...wont be long

Well that excuse....won't be long.

[Rat Catcher]

I thought you said you're 70, CB... anyway, hold out if you're close enough. The letter could be a bluff... If I had a pound for every solicitors letter I've received threatening legal action I'd have a fair few pounds yet I've never been summonsed... except that time I cycled the wrong way down a one way street at night with no lights on my bicycle and that time it was alleged that I ignored a traffic signal... oh, and that time the baldy cunt from Malahide didn't show up twice after charging me with insufficient thread depth on a tyre, illegible fare card, breaking a red light and something else that escapes me right now...

[Rat Catcher]

drew is a  protestants rat .....should  we have orange men marchin down oconnoll street wit lambegs  on the 12th if we are to embrace all these " religions " (  cults ) ?
Centuries to get rid of catholic mafia Italian oppression....an now yu want us to allow   some alien cult from south arabia  .....the mind boggles .....
Kids are all learnin bout all these foreign religions one minute ....then ther learnin bout teranasaurus rex the next minute ..are yu tryin confuse the poor cnuts 

Islam isn't an alien cult, it's a religion that's becoming increasing popular on these shores. It may well be the most practiced religion in the country given that vast numbers who declare themselves to be Roman Catholic are "non-practising". Given that RTE devotes time to a dying religion it ought to devote relative time to a growing one.

[Bob Shillin]

Why not drop both, I don't see any announcements about the tooth fairy, for whom there is as much evidence or lack thereof?

[Rat Catcher]

There is a reasonable argument for dropping the Angelus on the grounds that it's not as relevant to peoples' lives as it may once have been. However, RTE has a public service remit so ought to cater for religious beliefs, particularly during the COVID '19 pandemic during which people can't gather to worship. The importance of religion to many people cannot be overstated. Maybe there should be a dedicated channel to broadcast Catholic mass, Protestant mass and Islamic calls to prayer?

[silverbullet]

There is a reasonable argument for dropping the Angelus on the grounds that it's not as relevant to peoples' lives as it may once have been. However, RTE has a public service remit so ought to cater for religious beliefs, particularly during the COVID '19 pandemic during which people can't gather to worship. The importance of religion to many people cannot be overstated. Maybe there should be a dedicated channel to broadcast Catholic mass, Protestant mass and Islamic calls to prayer?

I'm not saying they'll definitely get rid of the bells,  but I have a hunch.

[Shallowhal]

There is a reasonable argument for dropping the Angelus on the grounds that it's not as relevant to peoples' lives as it may once have been. However, RTE has a public service remit so ought to cater for religious beliefs, particularly during the COVID '19 pandemic during which people can't gather to worship. The importance of religion to many people cannot be overstated. Maybe there should be a dedicated channel to broadcast Catholic mass, Protestant mass and Islamic calls to prayer?

I'm not saying they'll definitely get rid of the bells,  but I have a hunch.

Sacre Bleu......or is that Notre Dame?

[Cool Boola]

Dont forget the live mass at 10.30 AM every morning on RTE...Church and State and wishey washey followers...still believe that they are the one and only true religion....

[Octavia1]

They can turn on   al Jazeera  or some shite an talk to ther fantasyland in the clouds  santi claus for grown ups  .....Islam is a cult ....a very dangerous one ....it should be outlawed as a racist  cult ideology that pertains to the notion that non believers are the enemy.....how many Buddhists have flown planes into buildings?  Yu dont see Hindus forming armies and going across vast areas of the middle east cutting heads off and beheading and persecuting woman an non believers .....
That brainwashing zombie  shit needs to be cut out of the world like a cancer ......you want to cater for racist violent extremism on the war path who's so called religion compels them to spread their gospel on the rest of us an if we dont accept ther " god " we are target   ?

[Cool Boola]

Well Octy ..I think we have to differ there...I do detest Muslim extremists who blow up innocent humans  in a
ALLAH s name..I also detest the nuns who threw innocent human babies into a cesspool pit and priests who raped innocent little boys.I could not accept being associated with any religions that brush over the way that some of its members behave........BTW  I have put up a lovely link to Van G painting have a look if you get the time 

[Octavia1]

Yes cools ...all religions "cults" are a menace and a threat to
Peace and harmony and goodness because they attract and are run by psychopaths  who seek to control vulnerable people ...fuk them all out of heer ....I've said it before an I'll say it again ....ireland needs a teeshock in a uniform

[Octavia1]

https://static.kuula.io/share/79QMS

Trippy 

[Bob Shillin]

Yes cools ...all religions "cults" are a menace and a threat to
Peace and harmony and goodness because they attract and are run by psychopaths  who seek to control vulnerable people ...fuk them all out of heer ....I've said it before an I'll say it again ....ireland needs a teeshock in a uniform

Like Myanmar?

[Shallowhal]

Yes cools ...all religions "cults" are a menace and a threat to
Peace and harmony and goodness because they attract and are run by psychopaths  who seek to control vulnerable people ...fuk them all out of heer ....I've said it before an I'll say it again ....ireland needs a teeshock in a uniform

Like Myanmar?

Oul Angsang Sushi didn't do much for her people....after Bono and co biggin her up!!

[Cool Boola]

Yeah!...forgot about that