Ireland without Christ says wine is bad. In defense of the body, forget the transcendental

The green island first stopped believing. Now it turns against the sacred liquid. But there is nothing surprising: it is a typical case of healthy statism which is sometimes dirigisme, sometimes authoritarianism, sometimes dictatorship

“Absurd”, according to the reasonable Tajani, “Ireland’s decision to introduce a label for all alcoholic beverages, including Italian wine”. And obviously we are talking about negative, discouraging labelling, such as that on cigarette packets : leave all hope of health you who drink… But the adjective is not the best one could choose. “Absurd”, according to the vocabulary, means “contrary to reason, to common sense”, a word to describe “even things or facts real, but almost unbelievable in their strangeness”. Unfortunately in the Irish attack on wine I see absolutely nothing strange. Already in 2011 the Irish writer Colm Toibin he wrote, very pleased: “Today Catholicism in Ireland is finished”. Agreed, Tóibín is a registered anti-Catholic, a homosexual homosexual who dared to write a “Testament of Mary” in which Jesus is defined as “false and pompous”. But the apostasy of the green island is a fact reported by all observers of all orientations: “A once Catholic country and now home to the most aggressive secularist press in Europe” (George Weigel). “In 2015 Ireland became the first country in the world to approve same-sex marriage by popular vote” (our Meotti). “Once we all went to mass. Now, under a certain age, hardly anyone goes there” (David Quinn).