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**CicyHannyCeli** · 09-01-2012, 12:47 PM

Its probably not just education but prosperity as-well, back in the 80's the Catholic churches in Ireland were full to bursting every Sunday, young and old, today they are half empty. (Parents complain before they their children can have their Holy Communion the priest insists they attend 10 masses), these are the same Parents who would have filled the Churches 20 years before.

The Church has had its scandals but it seems to be the more industrialised a nation becomes the less religious its people are, the exception being the USA.

And now the fundamentalist religions in the US are trying to replace the teachings of Darwin's evolution with ID Intelligent Design now there is a superstition.

09-01-2012, 12:47 PM	#3
CicyHannyCeli Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 638 Senior Member	Its probably not just education but prosperity as-well, back in the 80's the Catholic churches in Ireland were full to bursting every Sunday, young and old, today they are half empty. (Parents complain before they their children can have their Holy Communion the priest insists they attend 10 masses), these are the same Parents who would have filled the Churches 20 years before. The Church has had its scandals but it seems to be the more industrialised a nation becomes the less religious its people are, the exception being the USA. And now the fundamentalist religions in the US are trying to replace the teachings of Darwin's evolution with ID Intelligent Design now there is a superstition.
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