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Originally Posted by kirklancaster
No Cherie, but that was a totally different issue to this and I did condemn the slaughter by all parties, and the part played by the British Government at the time.
No Irishman ever proclaimed a mission to conquer any other Western Democratic country and install Roman Catholicsm or Protestantism on the peoples they'd subjugated, and nowhere in the Holy Book that both Irish Irish Protestant and Catholics held sacred did it instruct them to do so.
I was as sickened and angered by Bloody Sunday as I was by any atrocity perpetrated by the sectarians.
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mmm the whole troubles in the North stuff was less to do with religion and more to do with Ireland being split in two and people either wanting to be British or Irish anyway. It just so happened that "the Irish side" were mainly Catholic and "the British side" mainly Protestant.