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Riotgrrl wrote:Basically, there is no Catholic rain and there is no Protestant rain.
There are no Catholic chips and there are no Protestant chips.
Even the violence is statistically more likely than not to be neither Catholic violence nor Protestant violence.
Let's all not go to church together, and instead we'll go out and eat chips and have a square go. Anyone else up for it?
Riotgrrl wrote:Basically, there is no Catholic rain and there is no Protestant rain.
There are no Catholic chips and there are no Protestant chips.
Even the violence is statistically more likely than not to be neither Catholic violence nor Protestant violence.
Let's all not go to church together, and instead we'll go out and eat chips and have a square go. Anyone else up for it?
draugelis wrote:Riotgrrl wrote:Basically, there is no Catholic rain and there is no Protestant rain.
There are no Catholic chips and there are no Protestant chips.
Even the violence is statistically more likely than not to be neither Catholic violence nor Protestant violence.
Let's all not go to church together, and instead we'll go out and eat chips and have a square go. Anyone else up for it?
So long as we all sing "Our God Rains" before we go into battle.
Quality Mince wrote:Thing about Catholics and Protestants is that both are Christian. So my question is this? What team does God support?
Quality Mince wrote:Thing about Catholics and Protestants is that both are Christian. So my question is this? What team does God support?
Celyn wrote:Quality Mince wrote:Thing about Catholics and Protestants is that both are Christian. So my question is this? What team does God support?
God doesn't care about football: she has more sense.
Dexter St. Clair wrote:There's a bit of naivety about sectarianism in Scotland. Like Joe's thinking that Catholic schools are the cause of bigotry.
Segregating children breeds bigotry.
hungryjoe wrote:on separate schools, but really, if kids below 5' 6'' went to one school and taller kids went another, you'd still get bigotry.
Dexter St. Clair wrote:Riotgrrl wrote:Dexter St. Clair wrote:
And BTW as late as the 80's there was a sign in the office at 129 Bath Street that said Catholic Schools / Protestant Schools.
I'm sorry, but I actually don't believe that.
I was educated in Glasgow schools. My mother taught in Glasgow schools.
The phrase 'Protestant School' is one I have never heard or seen in any official way referring to the non RC schools in Glasgow. Parish Schools, historically yes, and there is an obvious linguistic link there with the Church of Scotland. But 'Protestant Schools'? Never. Not in the 20th century.
Of course, I'm happy to be proved wrong . . . .
It was handwritten in an office in the late seventies and possibly in the office round the corner (not the 80's as I wrote above) and the phrase "protestant schools" was in common use. The admin staff put it up to designate a division of mail but it was an office that must have seen the occasional education officer.
I note that you're more shocked at this than Joe's history.
Dexter St. Clair wrote:You're all apparently happy that children can attend segregated schools as long as that segregation depends on money, sex or buying a house within the Jordanhill School Catchment area.
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