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Among The Best Traitors Ireland Has Ever Had, Mother Church Ranks At The Very Top, A Massive Obstacle In The Path To Equality And Freedom. She Has Been A Force For Conservatism... To Ward Off Threats To Her Own Security And Influence.

But I Make A Distinction Between The Doctrines Of The Church, Which Matter, And The Structure Invented By Half A Dozen Italians Who Got To Be Pope And Which Is Of Very Little Use To Anybody.

Should An Anthropologist Or A Sociologist Be Looking For A Bizarre Society To Study, I Would Suggest He Come To Ulster. It Is One Of Europe's Oddest Countries. Here, In The Middle Of The Twentieth Century, With Modern Technology Transforming Everybody's Lives, You Find A Medieval Mentality That Is Being Dragged Painfully Into The Eighteenth Century By Some Forward-looking People.

It Wasn't Long Before People Discovered The Final Horrors Of Letting An Urchin Into Parliament.

... In Northern Ireland, If You Don't Have Basic Christianity, Rather Than Merely Religion, All You Get Out Of The Experience Of Living Is Bitterness.