You know all those times you're watching a sporting event and a player does something good like scoring points and then immediately genuflects or makes some other superstitious gesture thanking God for implicitly being on his/her side and his/her side alone? (I have as little patience for that as I do for award-winners who thank God in their acceptance speeches, but at least with the latter I can make it into a drinking game of sorts.) If you think it's bad enough in a supposedly secular country, you really don't want to experience it in an area with history of sectarian violence like western Scotland, where a "gesture of religious reverence" accompanied by other gestures spells a heap of trouble during a football match between a Catholic team and a Protestant team from the same city.
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