topcat(The most tip top) Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 (edited) 7 hours ago, tamthebam said: She was head of the Anglican Church but no better than anyone else in the Presbyterian Church of Scotland where God is the nominal Head of the Church A principal that got up the nose of monarchs in the 17th Century and for which a lot of folk died. I've been in a couple of RC Chapels and don't remember seeing a picture of the Pope anywhere (but maybe I was too busy bursting into flames to notice..) the foundation of the Church of Scotland was, in itself, an act of rebellion against the monarch of the day Edited September 12, 2022 by topcat(The most tip top) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 the foundation of the Church of Scotland was, in itself, an act of rebellion against the monarch of the dayAnd not long later, a covenanter ancestor of mine was shot for refusing to say "God save the king". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 15 hours ago, kingjoey said: I might be mistaken, but I don't think that it's in the open. They were setting up the meadows to hold the "hundreds of thousands" of people queuing up to get in Given that if's monday and the Meadows are 1000 metres away from St Giles I'm sceptical that there will be many people on the meadows but I suppose the core target audience are beyond working age 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennie makevin Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 11 hours ago, DiegoDiego said: If it's so important for a protestant institution to have a big picture of the Queen up, why have I never seen a photo of the queen inside a protestant church? Surely a picture of Jesus or the moderator of the general assembly would be more appropriate? I'm an atheist myself but it's shite like that which gives religion a bad name. Because Rangers are not a Protestant institution....they are a secterian institution. They have no interest in, understanding of , or affiliation with, any Protestant religion that I am aware of. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennie makevin Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 10 hours ago, Hoose Rice said: No there's no pictures of the Pope in any chapels. For all the grief I got given over the past couple of days I am a non practicing RC. When I went to Catholic school in the 60s & 70s I never knew anyone who referred to Church as Chapel.... when did this change and why ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIVIFOREVER Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 (edited) 49 minutes ago, kennie makevin said: When I went to Catholic school in the 60s & 70s I never knew anyone who referred to Church as Chapel.... when did this change and why ? My mate's catholic wife still refers to it as the church. It was always a chapel when i grew up though, in the same era as you, so feck knows. Edited September 12, 2022 by LIVIFOREVER 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIVIFOREVER Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 13 hours ago, DiegoDiego said: If it's so important for a protestant institution to have a big picture of the Queen up, why have I never seen a photo of the queen inside a protestant church? Surely a picture of Jesus or the moderator of the general assembly would be more appropriate? I'm an atheist myself but it's shite like that which gives religion a bad name. I think that ship sailed a long, long time ago, long before the blue erse cheek bigots came along. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoose Rice Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 3 hours ago, kennie makevin said: When I went to Catholic school in the 60s & 70s I never knew anyone who referred to Church as Chapel.... when did this change and why ? Dinnae ken? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennie makevin Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 6 minutes ago, Hoose Rice said: Dinnae ken? Me neither. The only people I knew when I was of school age who used the word 'chapel' to refer to a Catholic church were non-catholics . They generally weren't particularly pleasant about it. Hence I've never liked the word. 'Crying In The Chapel' by Elvis Presley excepted, of course. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Wolf Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 My mum's family did the grand tour of pretty much all of the assorted wacky Protestant sects available in darkest Lanarkshire from the 20s to the 50s, and some of them were referred to as "chapel" in the singular. In the nonconformist style (which I know little about being a heathen myself), and possibly influenced by the Welsh great-whatever granny lurking in that side of our family tree. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 A chapel is just a certain type of religious building. I don't think it's usage varies particularly among different sects.I used to live about 200m away from a Catholic chapel. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoose Rice Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 17 minutes ago, kennie makevin said: Me neither. The only people I knew when I was of school age who used the word 'chapel' to refer to a Catholic church were non-catholics . They generally weren't particularly pleasant about it. Hence I've never liked the word. 'Crying In The Chapel' by Elvis Presley excepted, of course. Aye me too. Attended church/chapel until about high school age to do first confession/communion malarkey to please my auld granny but thought it was baws and stopped going when I went to High School and concentrate on Football in the mornings. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoose Rice Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 (edited) 5 minutes ago, DiegoDiego said: A chapel is just a certain type of religious building. I don't think it's usage varies particularly among different sects. I used to live about 200m away from a Catholic chapel. Aye maybe your right. Is a chapel no just a wee church or a bit of the building you do mass in? Edited September 12, 2022 by Hoose Rice 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedEd Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 (edited) A chapel is a room used for religious worship in a larger building e.g. hospitals, schools, prisons. It was also (inaccurately) used to refer to Catholic churches, certainly in the West anyway. Edited September 12, 2022 by RedEd 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 (edited) 44 minutes ago, DiegoDiego said: A chapel is just a certain type of religious building. I don't think it's usage varies particularly among different sects. I used to live about 200m away from a Catholic chapel. Having originally referred to a place of worship smaller than a normal church it then becomes a label for places of worship outside the mainstream which by their nature would tend to end up in smaller buildings. It's use in Scotland for Baptists, Roman Catholics and Wesleyans is in this sense and shouldn't be too controversial except for Roman Catholics because they think they're the mainstream and everyone else it a splitter Edited September 12, 2022 by topcat(The most tip top) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kapowzer Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 Sooooo... has the chairman of East Fife shagged the tea lady or is it business as normal at Dundee United and Hibs? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 4 hours ago, kennie makevin said: When I went to Catholic school in the 60s & 70s I never knew anyone who referred to Church as Chapel.... when did this change and why ? I always said church growing up also 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durnford Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 In Wales a chapel was a church without a tower or spire. Obviously large buildings such as palaces or castles may have a chapel; I think there's also one at Edinburgh airport not tied to any denomination. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoF Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 Given the definition of tin pot kinda grew to include anything that was shite, has this thread now eaten itself and is now tin pot? 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoose Rice Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 3 hours ago, RedEd said: A chapel is a room used for religious worship in a larger building e.g. hospitals, schools, prisons. It was also (inaccurately) used to refer to Catholic churches, certainly in the West anyway. Aye there's a chapel in the ERI come to think of it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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