You do raise a very good point about songs imo, does the song make the team play better, inspire to drive the team on.
And totally agree with the basic theory.
Just saw this on FB. Very apt
No doubt that many who cherish a religion claim do so only in name, 'Protestant' for clear example is not even a specific religion and never has been, but it is a word a badge a claim that is spouted often, most proudly and loudly by people many of whom have ironically never practised any actual faith and could not even produce a credible definition or the origin of the word.
Anyway, if your point in showing the image was that education effects real and lasting change!
Then perhaps you need to reflect on some of your own points and thoughts here, on this very subject matter for example you appear to agree with or like those who somehow imagine that the answer to songs sung at Celtic that are not liked by them - is to demand conformity via ridicule as you do yourself directly in the question of is there a God
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So you think a supernatural invisible man in the sky is a rational step because we don’t have all the answers? That’s too easy and doesn’t start to explain who created him/her?
How do you account for a being that invents itself then everything else and how could you hope to prove that when he remains in hiding?
Why would he keep hidden?
Think about the image you posted up! And ask yourself these questions.
Why would you imagine that you or any of us are remotely more important for a personal revelation or understanding than say a single leaf from one of the many millions of trees on earth, many of which are attached to living things which have lived an individual age and known earth a lot longer than any human.
All forms of religious doctrine or guides are obviously largely if not all human adaptations and translations of older concepts from lost languages and cultures.
But that reality does not rule out the possibility and imo strong likelihood that the earth and all in it was a purposeful creation of something that we mortal humans have no credible or real understanding of and hence why faith belief itself is all important core concept in all human religions.
People who are supposed scholars of knowledge, the pure science based thinkers look for evidence and proof! but what if they as humans are incapable of even deciphering such complexity to even consider the evidence.
Certainly beyond me how to explain even comparatively easy to see events such as the numerous plain sight cyclical calendars occurring to enable life as we know it, let alone the mysterious sun and moon, just how a seed falls and then waits and then grows into a specific plant or a food that feeds another life form that itself is designed to refeed back into the cycle. I can define it in a context but not explain it.
Just opening up and examining the inside of a pomegranate and marvelling at the wonder of nature at God call it what you want, because the one absolute certainty to date is there has been no human who can actually explain it or explain it away.
All on earth is so vast so complex and intricate, that no one lifetime can possibly seek to comprehend to understand, so an open mind is the only logic.
That's just earth, which is a comparative spec of dust in what we believe we know of outer space or our claimed known universe.
Just as Ireland and those of it be they the Irish or other, is a lot more complex than the simple image of a religious divide that many accept or view as the problem of Ireland to accept to correct! An extremely simple image for the mind to take in and accept, even if it is one that does not really stand up to much scrutiny or logic, it is one that absolutely suited the competing landed estate owners from the seventeenth century onwards and suited most of all their boss who they all had to pay a portion of their profits to, the so called royals in another land, who promoted the simplistic ideas.