On Rangers Fans and Recent Weddings
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I would be interested to know what Rangers fans think of Conservative and Unionist Prime Minister, Boris Johnson's recent public embrace of the Catholic faith.*
Support for Rangers football club (or to give them their full historical name SEVCO) is correlated with British Nationalism, Presbyterianism, Unionism, Anti-Catholicism and support for the constitutional position of 1688 and 1746. At least historically this is the case. Rangers fan have also a bit of history of rioting, both home and away. If there were to be violent resistance to the creation of an independent Scotland there is likely to be a big overlap between Ranger's supporters and membership of Unionist militant or terrorist groups.**
What I'm curious about here is the extent to which Scotland still has a sectarian problem and if so, to what extent does this overlap with British Nationalism and Unionism. Scotland likes to think that sectarianism is mostly a solved problem. That what we have are a couple of tens of thousands of "Ninety-minute bigots" who sing rude songs at each other at the football but anti-Catholic sentiments don't drive any actual political positions. I'm not sure that's as true as we in Scotland would like to think it was.
There's some interesting stuff about the extent to which in Scotland British Nationalism and Unionism were bound up with Protestantism but I think very few people alive today would see Unionism primarily as a way of ensuring Protestantism in Scotland.
So I would be interested to see how Ranger's supporters views on Johnson have changed, if at all, and whether they see the decidedly British Nationalist and Unionist Prime Minister any differently now that his Catholic heritage has been foregrounded a bit.
Having mulled it over over the weekend I'd think probably not much. I'm conscious I'm definately viewing this question through an abstract political lens, not a religious or personal cultural one. Perhaps I am not asking the right question. It would be interesting to know.
*not really sure there is a word for what happens when you sort of re-join a communion you were sort of in but sort of left a couple of times. I was under the impression that with these things you were either In or Out as if your immortal soul literally depended on it but perhaps I've got my metaphysics and theology wrong and it's a bit more pick and mix than that.
** #NotAllRangersFans ***
*** But also #SomeRangersFans see for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Boys
I would be interested to know what Rangers fans think of Conservative and Unionist Prime Minister, Boris Johnson's recent public embrace of the Catholic faith.*
Support for Rangers football club (or to give them their full historical name SEVCO) is correlated with British Nationalism, Presbyterianism, Unionism, Anti-Catholicism and support for the constitutional position of 1688 and 1746. At least historically this is the case. Rangers fan have also a bit of history of rioting, both home and away. If there were to be violent resistance to the creation of an independent Scotland there is likely to be a big overlap between Ranger's supporters and membership of Unionist militant or terrorist groups.**
What I'm curious about here is the extent to which Scotland still has a sectarian problem and if so, to what extent does this overlap with British Nationalism and Unionism. Scotland likes to think that sectarianism is mostly a solved problem. That what we have are a couple of tens of thousands of "Ninety-minute bigots" who sing rude songs at each other at the football but anti-Catholic sentiments don't drive any actual political positions. I'm not sure that's as true as we in Scotland would like to think it was.
There's some interesting stuff about the extent to which in Scotland British Nationalism and Unionism were bound up with Protestantism but I think very few people alive today would see Unionism primarily as a way of ensuring Protestantism in Scotland.
So I would be interested to see how Ranger's supporters views on Johnson have changed, if at all, and whether they see the decidedly British Nationalist and Unionist Prime Minister any differently now that his Catholic heritage has been foregrounded a bit.
Having mulled it over over the weekend I'd think probably not much. I'm conscious I'm definately viewing this question through an abstract political lens, not a religious or personal cultural one. Perhaps I am not asking the right question. It would be interesting to know.
*not really sure there is a word for what happens when you sort of re-join a communion you were sort of in but sort of left a couple of times. I was under the impression that with these things you were either In or Out as if your immortal soul literally depended on it but perhaps I've got my metaphysics and theology wrong and it's a bit more pick and mix than that.
** #NotAllRangersFans ***
*** But also #SomeRangersFans see for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Boys
