The Bible, a history by Gerry Adams

[Christa]

/snip:

What there was, though, was a feeling that everybody belonged to one of these two sides. Your religion, your school, your favourite football team, your stance on Northern Ireland and whether it was the Queen or the Pope that were to get themselves to fuck – they were all locked on together, you would know all these elements of a person’s personality by only knowing one.

Like people created on a production line. Cardboard cut-outs. And I’m embarrassed to say that I was one of them. I don’t mean to put down people who see themselves as one of those two sides. If you’ve thought it all out and those are your views, then fair enough. But I felt like they were put in my head, and I never questioned them.

And, over time, I started to unweave this fucking crap that passed down the generations, from one fucking idiot to another. I started to wake up to some of the realities of my personality.



http://www.limmy.com/blog/2010/02/25/the-bible-a-history-with-gerry-adams-2/

[dmallind]

1. Good thinking. 40 fucking years too late, but he got there in the end

Of course if he'd have thought like that 40 years ago the IRA would have nailed his kness to a fence like they did other "traitors" to "the cause".