Up to the Sixties in Ireland

In a time when the nation was torn apart by financial difficulties the church were encouraging families to have more and more kids. Twelve children wouldn’t be a rare event in an Irish family the church would encourage people in church every Sunday to have more knowing that families could not afford to have them and then not give them any help or support.

They would do this because they were lead to believe that if they did what the priest they would have a place in heaven. The real reason was that in fact if the priests parish expanded that their wages would too, and they would be able to ask for more money for projects for their parish, which they did and kept it to do up their houses or the churches. Very little if any money was put into the parish the church had such control over towns and villages, that the farmers had to pay up money for the upkeep of the churches and the priests houses not knowing that they had already been paid by the church.

I guess I should be thankful that I didn’t grow up back then because I would have a few things to say. How naïve do people have to be to follow a religion that is practically telling you what to do and how to live and how many children to have. If you didn’t live by the churches laws you were turned against by your community, you have to remember that in Ireland back then you only really socialised at church and hops as they were known back then, known now as disco’s, were all set up by the church run by the church. The men would have to stand at one side of the room and the women on the other side. All they were aloud do was talk to each other. You can forget about grabbing a boob or a kiss or any thing like that.

You were only aloud dance on separate sides of the room. Unless you were married you couldn’t have children if you did you would be branded a whore and the child taken away from you. The church that took your child would sell it to another country, such as America or England or some other part of the world. The church saw the child to be good enough to make a profit but not good enough for its own family. I have a friend that was born in the eighties his parents weren’t married the church got involved and took him until the parents got married and they had to adopt their own child back. What religion would practice this sort of thing.