https://x.com/MichaelMcCahi10/status/1808853173471211853

Hadn't heard this before. Or perhaps I had and just tried to forget. The mind absolutely fucking boggles at the "logic" here. Scary to think people like this are allowed to drive, or vote never mind act as political representatives.

by askmac

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  1. Aul Ronseal Ruth.
    Sometimes I miss the bitter old bag.

  2. Kids running around town enjoying themselves? That’s unacceptable provocation!

  4. My favourite British Saint. Sad he had to suffer as a victim of the Irish slave trade.

  5. I mean, he wasn’t a Protestant but he also was not part of the Roman church.

  6. As someone that grew up protestant, this was something I heard (and was taught. Taught!) from primary school.

    I actually heard it this year around St Patricks Day too. Anybody that spouts this nonsense doesn’t like it when you ask what date Patrick lived then the dates of the reformation.

    Same thing if you start querying some (protestant) church traditions and who started them.

  8. People arguing over which brand of make believe nonsense someone subscribed to despite one brand originating well and truly after that person’s death is a whole new level of insanity I was not prepared to learn today.

  9. I have heard people try to use this. Despite St Patrick being about 10 centuries before the Reformation!

  10. >Patterson: St Patrick was a Protestant.

    >Interviewer: He lived 1000 years before the Reformation. He couldn’t have been a Protestant.

    >Patterson: Well I consider him a Protestant.

    The state of the world in one interview clip. Choose-your-own-reality, facts are optional.

  11. It always makes me laugh these tit-for-tit claimant arguments until you realise both sections supposedly believe in the same brown man who grew up in the middle-east.

    As the Ukrainian exchange student perfectly sums up in Derry Girls… “You are just different flavour from same religion” 

  12. The actual fuck. “I see where you’re coming from but I see him as a former Protestant”. Dear lord that’s enough internet for me for today. Or ever really. Can’t believe what I just listened to

  13. As much as Ruth was a bit of a headbanger, this honestly didn’t surprise me when she came off with this. I remember Protestant school kids telling us this on the bus on the way home from secondary school years ago. There are more people out there who believe this than you’d care to know about.

  16. What’s a “Former Protestant” and why, after being absolutely ripped apart on her first point, does she retreat to this phrase?

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