Obama offends Catholics in the UK, says religious schools are divisive
He said: “If towns remain divided—if Catholics have their schools and buildings and Protestants have theirs, if we can’t see ourselves in one another and fear or resentment are allowed to harden—that too encourages division and discourages cooperation.”
I'm so excited to see how people defend this one....
(Sorry if this was posted already; didn't see it.)
Well, first off, we don't know the context of what he said; this is just a selected snippet from an obviously much longer speech.
But, just taking what we have, he's correct that if there is
hostility between neighbors, that can cause division. However, each faith having its own facilities is not divisive; it's only if there's hostility against each other
along with the seperate facilities that is divisive.
We had Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and secularists that all got along quite well in the last century, even though they all differed in belief and they all had their seperate facilties. It's only since this artificial politically-correct tolerance garbage got started that everybody has been at each other's throats.
If a community lives in separate worlds then the community doesn't actually exist does it ?
This is the cross of Northern Ireland (heck, Ireland generally).
Well, the situation in Northern Ireland is really more than just religion; it's more of a tribal conflict, to be honest. Cromwell brought over Scottish Presbyterians and gave them the land he stole from the Catholic Irish. There is no love lost between the British and the Irish, and religion just happens to be a small segment----or even a convenient excuse!----for the enmity between the two. In some cases, religion plays a very small part, if any role at all; the Provisional IRA, if I recall correctly, was primarily made up of Marxists.
People are going to bash Obama on this for any number of political, social, tea partyin' reasons.
But it they do it's because they are either: Looking for any reason to bash the President
Heck, Charlie, I don't have to
look for reasons to bash Obama----every time he opens his mouth, he
gives me plenty of reasons, all for free. I don't have to do a thing---he hands me reasons to bash him.
Primarily because he's an idiot, but what can I say?
President Obama's daughters attend Quaker school.
He's not a Quaker, and neither are his daughters, but it's the typical liberal elitist double standard of "do as I say, not as I do, because I know what's best for you".
If he really believed all the bilge he vomits out, he'd be sending his daughters to the D.C. public schools down in the 'hood. You ain't gonna see that happen any time soon.
