Why were Catholics and Protestants BOMBING each other in the UK for so many DECADES ?

Answer 1

The Protestants were from an English invasion. The Catholics were native Irish. The English still have "Northern Ireland" carved out of Ireland.

Answer 2

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. 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.

Answer 3

It was mostly because of politics, not religion. Has to do with the Irish wanting political freedom, and being run by Great Briton at the same time. One side (I believe the catholics), went along with the British government, but protestants weren't going for it, so the IRA not only bombed the english, they bombed catholics for going along with England too. A horrible mess.

Answer 4

The "Troubles" as they are called, are not really so much of a religious conflict, per ce, as they are an economic and national pride one. The UK has held to the 1/5 of the Irish isle and doesn't look to be letting it go anytime soon. Much of the tactics used by terrorist today were learned from the tactics used my the IRA (Irish Republican Army) and the Black and Tans in UK retaliation of them. Basically, the Irish (who are mostly Catholic), want the rest of the island back, from the UK (who are mostly Protestant), so the religion thing is really a secondary product of circumstance

Answer 5

Its not really a religious based disagreement, living on the border in Ireland i can tell you first hand there are lots of reasons. The main reasons are generally in England Henry the eighth re-established the churh so that he could divorce one of his many wives, in order to stabilise this religion he plundered all across england. Whereas in Ireland Protestants symbolise the British and the invasions and the plantations which we obviously weren't very happy about.

Answer 6

You mean Ireland, not the entire UK.

I am Irish. I have only 5000 words available to me to answer. Not enough. Do some desktop research through Google to get what you need.

Answer 7

Because it wasn't really about religion and still isn't. It's about Israel wanting England to get out of their country 100%, not just 50%. As an American I can totally sympathize. We kicked them out in 1776, but the queen and her family are still lurking about over her poking their fingers in all of our pies. For instance: the queen practically owns the Kennecott Copper Mine in Utah. She is on the regulatory board for the value of US money! There are lists and lists of things she is still allowed to do over here as though she still rules us. I'm asking Bush why he hasn't muscled THAT BEE-OTCH out of OUR territory instead of having a pissing contest with Saddam?! What that old ho is doing to this country underneath the covers is far worse than 9/11! Get the skank granny out of our country Shrub-man!

Answer 8

For basically the same reasons it's happening in Iraq.

Power, money, jobs, discrimination and belief system.

Except they have stopped and started efforts to work out a solution to their issues in a more peaceful manner.

Answer 9

It's easy to blame religion for this, but it was more socio-political division that spurred the violence in Northern Ireland. Even as a non-christian, I acknowledge that while it may seem like it was religiously motivated, it was really just a territorial and political soverignty issue.

Answer 10

What do you mean they were, they are bombing each other all over the world even now