Lewes Bonfire

Latest Lewes Bonfire posts

• Do you agree with Amazed Newmania? Particularly the bit about the need for Lewes bonfire 'empathy' with the Orange Order in Northern Ireland?


• The celebrations in Northern Ireland commemorate their freedom from a Papal regime, but unfortunately each year there is a steady flow of trouble created by RC's.
  Surely (as Lewes Bonfire commemorates the same cause) there should be a degree of empathy extended to our cousins.
  Remember, each year sinister forces are at work trying to undermine the 5th (Joe O'Keefe, Patricia Knight, David J Smith etc) and I hope that the 5th does not evolve into having these same problems.


• Hope my post was not misunderstood, just to clarify I do not believe there is bigotry attached to any part of the Lewes bonfire celebrations.


• What was OK in the Seventeenth Century is not necessarily what is OK today. Otherwise owning slaves and witch burning would still be legal and socially acceptable. It was the legislation that permitted the creation of Catholic bishoprics that led to revival of the Nov 5 celebrations and the formation of Lewes Bonfire Societies. So, in that sense, they were anti-Catholic. But that doesn't mean that they still are today.


• I was brought up a catholic. The major reason I have become less of a religious person in my adult life is that relgion appears to me to have a lot to answer for. It has been behind some of the bloodiest episodes in the history of our planet. Unbelievably this continues right up to this day with modern day terrorism. I know it is, in the main, the fundamenalists and that they are in the minority, nevertheless they cause death and misery throughout the world supposedly in the name of their God.
  The Lewes bonfire night is a great evening but please look upon it as just that and enjoy it. Forget what happened hundreds of years ago, that involves bigotry. Northen Ireland every July have thousands on the street marching to celebrate an event that happened almost 400 years ago and every year there are problems with violence. It all seems so ridiculous to me.
  Be proud of our history but not to the extent that it causes violence today for happenings that are far in our past.