Every year, these individuals march through the streets early on weekend mornings, holding up traffic and playing loud and obnoxious flute and drum music.
My main complaint, however, is that these marches are a celebration of war and bloodshed. They are in reverence of one group of people mercilessly killing another purely because their beliefs are different. That is nothing for any human being to be proud of. The current marches serve no purpose except to provoke other people with opposing sympathies. It is disgusting, and it should not be allowed to continue.
If anyone out there thinks it should be upheld as a "noble historical tradition" I would ask them the following question:
Do you find what ISIS is currently doing in the Middle East to be admirable and noble?
Essentially, it is the same thing as what happened all those years ago: one sect of a religion butchering another sect because they believe their own way of worship is the one true path to their god. As ever, religion is the virus that causes the condition of conflict. At their heart, religions have an in-group/out-group mentality, and at the heart of almost every conflict on the globe; religious division is often found at it's core. Whoever is with the in-group, is deemed moral, just and true. Whoever does not subscribe to their beliefs, is either a sinner who is blind and needs saving, or a heathen deserving of death.
Sometimes war is a path that we are forced as nations, and as human beings, to walk. It is not something anyone should find gladness and glee in; but instead, a dignified respect for the lives lost and a regret that fighting was ever required in the first place.
Organisations like the orange order have no place in our future- and belong in our past to be shamed and ultimately forgotten.
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