This week I introduce Part II of a Portrait of Justice featuring Ireland. Rachel is a Masters student from the sunny Southern part of Ireland, and is engaged in interfaith/interdenominational dialogue in her home community. Her experience of conflict in Ireland is drastically different than what was shared in Part I of a Portrait of Justice in Ireland.
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For me justice is very equality based.
When I study every thing is the same, everybody is treated the same,
there is not much of a difference between a man and a woman. I could
do the exact same job as a man even though I am a woman. That's what
justice is for me anyway.
Something beautiful for me is becoming a part of SCM (Student
Christian Movement) Ireland. Something that I have witnessed, that I
have never witnessed before, is that we have so many people coming
from different Christian traditions. To be able to come together and
dialogue is an amazing thing, especially because of the troubles up
North.
Down where I am from we don't judge based on our religion. Everybody
is the same. I don't say 'oh, I'm Rachel, I'm a Catholic!' And my
friend wouldn't say, 'oh, I'm Victoria, and I'm a Protestant!”
We're just friends and we get on. Where as on the other side, where
Johnston is from, there was no friendship basis there at all. So that
is something beautiful you would see – that something so bad could
happen up in one end of the country, but something so amazing down
at the other end.
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