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Originally Posted by Niamh.

mmm well, tbf I don't think the troubles in the North can be put down to a religious thing like this conversation. The troubles in the North were about Britain splitting a country in two and the Irish section wanting to be Irish and the British section wanting to be British, neither were trying to convert anyone or force their religious beliefs on people, it just so happened that most "Irish" people in North happened to be Catholic and most "British" people in Northern Ireland happened to be Protestant

From an Irish perspective that's true, yet from an English perspective the troubles seemed very religion based which is why I used Ireland as a response to this,

'Other religious groups don't tend to be quite so aggressively proactive in their opposition.'

It seemed that they very much did back then.
I suppose historically it was more religion based than it is today.