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Comment author: Prismattic 09 October 2011 02:48:13AM 1 point [-]

I have touched on a related subject in another thread.

While I've never actually heard the term "Catholic atheist" as I have "Jewish atheist," it wouldn't actually be that surprising -- "Catholic," much more so than the generic "Christian", is a cultural signifier as well as a purely religious one.

Comment author: [deleted] 12 November 2011 03:22:19PM 2 points [-]

Indeed. In Ireland, especially Northern Ireland, religion is far from the only major difference between the two main groups (Catholics/Nationalists/Irish/people who say “Derry”/people who say “haitch” and Protestants/Unionists/British/people who say “Londonderry”/people who say “aitch”, for lack of any completely satisfactory one-word labels for the groups.)

(My spell checker is clearly Protestant, as it flags “haitch” as incorrect.)