Grand articles, lads. I, too, grew up in a home w...

2008-06-22T03:05:00.000+01:00

Grand articles, lads. I, too, grew up in a home where Catholicsm was the preferred religion, although we were Socialists, and our views on religion were tempered by that. It seemed to me that my family spent a lot of time trying to reconcile Christianity and Socialism. Probably a waste of effort, for if indeed the man known as Jesus actually existed, as I think he did, he was certainly a "morning star" of socialism. It is sad that his message has been hijacked and perverted by so many over so many centuries.
I will not comment on my own feelings about the existence of god further than to quote a great man, Clarence Kailin, a lifelong Communist, a veteran of the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, and a man whose lifelong selfless work for Peace and Justice should be emmulated by every "Christian". At a commemoration for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade a few years ago he said: " We Communinsts do not worry about paradise after death, we try our best to create it here on earth. If there is one after death, then we will take it as a bonus!"
Seoirse MacDomhnaill
Madison, Wisconsin USA

A family member was a practicing Catholic for most...

2008-06-16T23:18:00.000+01:00

A family member was a practicing Catholic for most of his life, yet in his late 70s he lost his faith, for good reason in my view. He never spoke of it, simply shut the door on the church, yet he seemed to change, less angry.

A couple of days before he died his daughter asked him if he wanted to see a priest and he firmly declined her offer. As a non believer I always supposed people gained comfort from their religion, indeed for me it is the only logical reason for people to believe such fairy tales, but now I'm not so sure.

Such is life I suppose.

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