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TomBo

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Re: Aha!

Jul 30, 2003, 15:40

Have you ever read the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne? I don't recommend you read it, I found it to be a very boring book! Its a story about Puritan Boston of the mid-seventeenth century. The plot is basically this: a woman commits adultery, and her harsh Christian judges determine that she must wear a scarlet letter A (for adultery) for the rest of her life:

"she will be a living sermon against sin, until the ignomious letter be engraved on her tombstone"

It seems to me that this is very much the same mentality that was behind the Sheelas (if what you say is true, and the more I think about it the more I think that what you say is true - and leaving aside Nigel's very interesting & plausible ideas about them being a message more for the priest). It was the Catholic Church in Ireland, though, I'm assuming (please correct me if I'm wrong). What struck me was that the protestants & catholics may differ on many things but they are surely united in their hatred for women. Ho hum.

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