Catholic or Protestant?

[nancylebov]

http://redbird.livejournal.com/802605.html?nc=1

It's like the forms in Northern Ireland that would ask, not about actual religion/ethnicity [2] but whether the person would "be perceived as" Catholic or Protestant. When Rysmiel and papersky told me about those, I said I would need a "don't know" box, and they both confidently told me that, in that context, I would be perceived as Protestant.

rysmiel? papersky? Anyone else familiar with Northern Ireland who knows me?

Would I be perceived as Catholic or Protestant? If it will go into words, why?

Aside from being intrigued by the whole thing, I've gotta know whether I should be outraged by _The Da Vinci Code_.

Comments

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Definitely a brainfart, or at least I knew papersky is Welsh. I'm correcting the original post.

[redbird]

Also, it occurs to me that the reasoning may be "papersky would be taken as Protestant, and she and redbird look enough alike that people think they're sisters" rather than anything specific about my features or coloring (or other attributes).