Re: Maybe I'm just old-fashioned but...
 

Have you been a leftfooter for awhile, Blazey? Not one of these passing phases is it, like your previous infatuation with the Tory party?

Re: Maybe I'm just old-fashioned but...
 

Some people need religion, if it helps them survive I can see it has its uses.
I am just glad that I can get by without it - self sufficiency is a more satisfying mode of survival.

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Fantastic Wyn, that really cracked me up, Laughing all the way in a one horse open sliegh, your first post that is.

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It probably cost a lot of money, attiring all these new female altar servers.

Just as it would if they decided to modernise, and have female priests.

Hang on, it wouldn't actually.

All those frocks are unisex.

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I'm dying to re-write the two mars bars and a kitkat joke but I won't.:D:D

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stop being soft, just do it :rolleyes::D

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It's right, though, isn't it, Al? Can you imagine staggering in after a long night up the Cav and pondering on the moral and ethical imperatives of female altar people in the RC Church?

Sod that, it's Christmas, not a BBC2 discussion programme....now where's the Alka-Seltzer? ;)

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Mind you Wyn you have to give it to blazey, you don't see her on here for months then one post has everybody talking, she's got a way with words as our blazey:rolleyes:

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Some things are best left to the imagination,But it is funny.:D:D

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A leftfooter?

If you mean have I been a churchgoer for a while, the answer is that I don't often go to church any more. I went to both St Mary's and Mount Carmel, though I didn't go to St Mary's College so that I could get away from the people from school, and I was in the choir throughout both schools even though I was the only person in my year in the choir at Mount Carmel.

I've always been close to my faith though. I don't attend the service at uni because I have other commitments and I don't particularly like worshipping in a building that isn't purpose built for catholic worship, but I'm a member of the Christian Union and attend lunch bars every week where there is a different hour-long discussion about some form of issue. I don't always agree with what is said and most christians at them tend to be evangelical christians, but they're good to go to and the people are nice enough.

Anyway, I have found it helps more the older I get, and I enjoy it.

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Didn't ask for your life story...I was just curious about whether this was one of your little fads that you seem to have from time to time. As for Left Footer, it's a colloquialism for RCs.

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I am an atheist, I was brought up C of E, that was bad enough, My 'Lapsed' Catholic friends think I got away with it lightly.

I personally think, what the heck, a child starts questioning what they have been taught by rote, do they deserve to be punished or should the teacher be honest?

I will always go with honesty, it is a subject that leaves us all with doubt's, life starts getting you down or nature throws a wobbly, we all sort of hope there is a God, a blessed parent better even than the parents we know, 'Our' parents looked after us, they helped us survive until this particular crisis.

They did it naturally, their religion has to come second, unfortunately we get impressed by their beliefs, some are good some are bad.

If you wish to turn up to a midnight Mass and enjoy it with other people of similar Ilk, why should it matter if the 'Alter Boy', is a girl, or that the Priest/Vicar is Married or even gay?

So long as you get a benefit from it & you aren't forcing it on others by saying, "This is the way it has to be done.

Everyone should be able to live together.

Tell me a Jew or a Muslim or someone of a similar faith to yourselves is wrong then obviously, you are wrong not them, live with what you find content, but don't tell others how to live their lives, (they just might be there when you need a helping hand).

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Next time I'll just ignore you, you ungrateful so and so. As for fads, the only thing I've tried that was new since I was at school was playing rugby. I was conservative throughout most of the period I have been interested in politics except from the time I ventured into labour because of criticism from middle class arseholes at uni trying to save the world with socialism. I soon realised it was pointless idealism.

So do not try being clever, it's boring. Almost as boring as talking on censored forums. I'd love to add a bit of profanity in there, just to keep in the spirit of being a northern working class lass that is.

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And Less, it isn't about not getting along with women, gay men or married priests, it is about traditional values and customs. I just don't like the changes. Muslims wouldn't stand for it, Jews wouldn't stand for it. I didn't walk out of church in disgust, but I was just unimpressed by it, that's all.

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I'm a strong believer in biblical traditions.

It's ridiculous that women now expect an education.

Their place is in the home, by the hearth, for the Bible tells us so.