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Pádraic Mac Coitir ✒ As an atheist I take some interest in religious orders and most of them amuse me. 

I would never insult anyone who believes in a god and goes to religious services unless they try to lecture me or try to convince me of there being a god.
 
I was baptised a catholic and went to communion and was confirmed. I hadn't a clue about it and just done as my parents and teachers told me. So I suppose I was seen as a 'good wee catholic'. By the way we never referred to ourselves as Roman Catholic.
 
As I got older I started to question things and that was a no no for catholics. Religion is based on faith and take the word of the gospel as the truth. When I was on the blanket protest the only reading material was the bible and religious magazines such as the Word and newspapers like The Universe. Like most of the lads I read them because there was nothing else. I started to read about saints and the 'miracles' they created and I would laugh at them. To pass the time we talked out the doors about them and many of the lads believed them. I stopped going to confession and taking communion and the only reason I went to mass every Sunday was to get out of the cell. We all knew the history of the catholic church and their connivance with the state and that was another reason for me not going to mass to pray. There's a lot more I could write about it but I'd only bore you even more!

The reason for writing this is because I'm slightly interested in the election of a new pope. Apart from the massive amount of money it's costing it's so outdated. 133 old men all say they're doing as their god guides them to do. Now the next pope will be god's main man on earth so why the need for an election? Does the man (I presume it's a man even nobody has ever seen him, or her) above not whisper in each old man's ear and not say Cardinal such and such is the main man in the Vatican?

There again even cynics like me enjoy the spectacle of black smoke billowing out of the chimney. I wonder if the fuel they use to burn the ballots is environmentally friendly??? And when is there gonna be a Pope Patrick?

Padraic Mac Coitir is a former republican
prisoner and current political activist.

Black Smoke

Pádraic Mac Coitir ✒ As an atheist I take some interest in religious orders and most of them amuse me. 

I would never insult anyone who believes in a god and goes to religious services unless they try to lecture me or try to convince me of there being a god.
 
I was baptised a catholic and went to communion and was confirmed. I hadn't a clue about it and just done as my parents and teachers told me. So I suppose I was seen as a 'good wee catholic'. By the way we never referred to ourselves as Roman Catholic.
 
As I got older I started to question things and that was a no no for catholics. Religion is based on faith and take the word of the gospel as the truth. When I was on the blanket protest the only reading material was the bible and religious magazines such as the Word and newspapers like The Universe. Like most of the lads I read them because there was nothing else. I started to read about saints and the 'miracles' they created and I would laugh at them. To pass the time we talked out the doors about them and many of the lads believed them. I stopped going to confession and taking communion and the only reason I went to mass every Sunday was to get out of the cell. We all knew the history of the catholic church and their connivance with the state and that was another reason for me not going to mass to pray. There's a lot more I could write about it but I'd only bore you even more!

The reason for writing this is because I'm slightly interested in the election of a new pope. Apart from the massive amount of money it's costing it's so outdated. 133 old men all say they're doing as their god guides them to do. Now the next pope will be god's main man on earth so why the need for an election? Does the man (I presume it's a man even nobody has ever seen him, or her) above not whisper in each old man's ear and not say Cardinal such and such is the main man in the Vatican?

There again even cynics like me enjoy the spectacle of black smoke billowing out of the chimney. I wonder if the fuel they use to burn the ballots is environmentally friendly??? And when is there gonna be a Pope Patrick?

Padraic Mac Coitir is a former republican
prisoner and current political activist.
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1 comment:

  1. chungus12:06 AM, May 22, 2025

    A curious number of Irish leftists are almost Paisleyite in their treatment of the church. The author is well known for his zealousness for political correctness. Would he write an article of this nature about Islam or Muslims for instance?

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