Comments on: Easterly… https://orchardmusic.com/blog/2025/04/21/easterly/ A nice place for music, and more, to grow Fri, 25 Apr 2025 11:02:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: treehugga https://orchardmusic.com/blog/2025/04/21/easterly/#comment-36 Fri, 25 Apr 2025 11:02:17 +0000 https://orchardmusic.com/?p=345#comment-36 In reply to David.

Because the night belongs to livers. Pâté Smith.

]]> By: treehugga https://orchardmusic.com/blog/2025/04/21/easterly/#comment-35 Mon, 21 Apr 2025 16:56:35 +0000 https://orchardmusic.com/?p=345#comment-35 In reply to David.

Yes, I think the Coakley/O’Donnell generation of teachers was probably reaching its end by 1969/70 when I transitioned to ‘big school’. Should I really say “Thank God” as I don’t think any deities were involved. I do recall several instances where any attempts at rational discussion (as per your excellent example) were quickly stomped upon like the beginnings of a bush fire (quite an apt allegory though I do say so myself!). Seems like a parallel and distant universe now, but of course it was all real and lived by many. I get the impression that in some other countries it’s still no better or in fact even worse… Happy Easter! 😉

]]> By: David https://orchardmusic.com/blog/2025/04/21/easterly/#comment-34 Mon, 21 Apr 2025 16:05:25 +0000 https://orchardmusic.com/?p=345#comment-34 ]]> I of course identify with your experience but perhaps had a milder experience with the violence at Holy Family RC Primary School. There was indoctrination all the same, Confirmation at age seven etc etc. The aptly named Religious Instruction classes at St Simon Stock RC Secondary School, not Religious Education classes, were a debating highlight for me, once I’d decided that doubting St Thomas was the best of the bunch and justified my doubting and exit from Catholicism. The RI teacher Mr McQuillan (“you’re all a bunch of heathens” said under his breath) posed scenarios to justify God’s existence. One was the ‘miracle’ that during the 2nd World War Cologne Cathedral was not hit by allied bombing but the surrounding houses and factories were completely flattened with the people inside. That was the day the ‘worm’ turned and I told him exactly how it was and that in my ‘book’ deaths of innocent people should be seen as a tragedy, and surely lovely Jesus would have wanted to save them rather than an old building that can be replaced by their hard work and devotion to him, had he saved them instead. It just wasn’t logical, and surely as a Christian he shouldn’t hate German civilians that much…🙃

]]> By: David https://orchardmusic.com/blog/2025/04/21/easterly/#comment-33 Mon, 21 Apr 2025 13:52:02 +0000 https://orchardmusic.com/?p=345#comment-33 Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine. Patti Smith.

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