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CatHerder wrote:It can be entertaining at times. It seems that god let quite a few people drink-drive with impunity. And for this we should be thankful.

God and his 'mysterious ways' eh? .

Retrospective determinism? – arguing that because some event has occurred (acting the maggot and surviving) , its occurrence must have been inevitable beforehand (i.e. a god was looking out for them).

I guess you could argue others too.

Dia dhuit is quite formal, the likes of conas atá tú is more common in practice (even though that means how are you rather than hello), in the Gaeltacht it's also common to hear people just say hi (I've seen it spelt 'haigh' on some occassions). On the whole I wouldn't be too concerned with the god ...

Your anger and frustration and clear from your post and justifiably so. There are several threads related to this topic on this site but perhaps your first port of call should be http://www.teachdontpreach.ie There are several other members here who have been in your position and they'd be in a bett...

Well David Quinn had free publicity and views put forward thanks to google. ......and the Irish Independant while his comrade in woo Brenda O'Brien has the Irish Times to propogate the views of the Iona Institute. I really wish the Indo and I.T. in the interest of disclosure would preface any artic...

In all honesty a lot of the posts on there wouldn't endear an outsider to A.I. There is one guy on there in particular who just seems to use the forum to vent bile at the RCC with most of threads being random spouts rather than taking issue with particular topics/issues. I rarely go on there anymore...

From what I can see that popularity of forums like this has declined across the board, others I have used for years in the areas of music, football etc have all died a death over the past few years.
There seems to be no stopping Facebook.

I'd be interested in hearing if the editor of Alive! is as much of a loon in person as his newspaper suggests he is?

Move to Germany and opt out of the church tax and they'll kick you out quick enough

I got out before they closed the door on the countmeout route.