A tongue-in-cheek “religion” followed by proud natives of Shrewsbury, in Shropshire (a.k.a. Salop), built on sacred hills, strong tea, Charles Darwin , Shrewsbury town FC and unwavering county loyalty.
Practitioners worship the rolling countryside, make pilgrimages to Shrewsbury, and regard the Montgomerys Tower as a holy summit.
Core beliefs include defending Shropshire against slander from neighbouring counties, revering market towns as spiritual hubs, and insisting that life is simply better “back home.”
Callum: “I never knew you were a fan of christiantiy?
George: “I’m not mate, I’m a firm believer in Salopianism”
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
church hurt is where you experience a degree of distance, pain, or judgement from your church community. Essentially, you are just unable to “find your place”. This is prevalent in the Christian community, but can be extended to other religions.
Now that I am an adult I am beginning to heal from the church hurt that was inflicted on me as a child.