If in Northern Ireland there are Catholics and Anglicans, why they say Catholics and Protestants instead?
(I mean, Anglicans are Protestants, but there are many other Protestant branches)
2007-04-11 12:57:06 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
The issue in Northern Ireland is political not religious. The media, who is always looking for short cuts and not the whole story, calls the participants Catholics and Protestants.
The conflict is about whether the British territory (probably the wrong word) of Northern Ireland should remain British or should become part of Ireland.
The majority of people in Ireland are Catholics. The majority of people in England and Northern Ireland are Protestants (or Anglicans). There are actually Catholics and Protestants on either side.
The terrorists on either side of the issue are not Christian in any sense of the word.
With love in Christ.
2007-04-11 17:29:49 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Protestant religion was forced on the Irish country by the the English Nation backed up by the Anglican Church. The Anglican Church was devised as a spin off of the Roman Catholic Church by King Henry the Eighth. It's a question of who get's to **** who. it;s not pretty, or big or clever.
2007-04-11 13:07:56 · answer #2 · answered by Michael G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the Protestants in NI are Presbyterians not Anglicans. They went to Ulster to escape the oppression of Bloody Queen Mary of Scotland. There are also a good deal of Irish Anglicans in Ulster as well.
2007-04-11 13:10:34 · answer #3 · answered by johnbucktcu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means the same thing - Anglican/Protestant. Anglican is a particular denomination inside Protestantism, but it is still Protestant.
2007-04-13 03:55:44 · answer #4 · answered by Danny H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
read the ninety-five theses of Martin Luther. That's the difference between catholics and protestants. That and that some denominations of protestantism believe that the pope is the antichrist.(im not being facetious, that's actually true) But here's the thing; if religion is so unimportant to you that all you know is what you are called(cath or prot)then why bother to find out what the differences are? you aren't growing in faith towards christ, so why do you care? Marry outside of your "faith".
2016-05-17 22:46:25 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To them the fight isn't between different Protestant churches. It's between Catholics and Protestants. More significant differences
2007-04-11 13:04:31 · answer #6 · answered by Cheryl Durham, Ph.D. 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Henry VIII split from the Catholic church because the Pope wouldn't let him keep divorcing his wives---(and often killing them) and so he started the Anglican Church---similar in rites and ceremonies to the Catholics.
That's the short answer---am not going to do your homework
2007-04-11 13:02:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
comics versus comics= no difference
2007-04-11 13:01:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are all in the same boat thats sinking.
2007-04-11 12:59:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
go and do your homework, its getting late and you have to present that tomorrow morning.....
2007-04-11 13:05:40 · answer #10 · answered by Latina_Rica 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋