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(77,795 posts)So, I also share your insight about the bad side of Irish-Catholicism, and always with that *guilt* and *nostalgia* that Catholicism is so expert at injecting into us.
I've said here many times before, j'ever notice how many of the national pundit and judges are Irish Catholic, and how articulate they are? It's all a product of the remnant of the Middle Ages curriculum, the last dregs of the antiquities, what put "Roman" in Roman Catholicism. Rhetoric, diction, rote, dialectics, debate - all the skills needed for verbal superiority over opponents. And much of it inflicted by a lot of sadistic monks and nuns, spread out colonially across swaths of brown people in the world.
All those Irish-Catholics - Tweety, G.E.RUSSERT, O'LOOFAH, HANNITY, the BUCHANANs, and really I'd say FIFTY or hundreds more, when all the judges and other office holders are counted. The only non-Catholic outliers are LIMBOsevic and a couple of others.
Another thought that might light flames is: As a multi-generational Dem/Lib, I spent at least 50 of my past 70 years of political awareness with full empathy and support of all things Israel, yet in the past 20 or so years have wondered why all of these Jewish billionaires are so heavily Neo-con/wingnuts - ADELSON and many *MANY* others, and the media yakkers like Mark LEVIN, WIENER-"Savage" and *MANY* others.
So, pal, welcome to DU, and *brace* for flaming.