Are Presbyterians more closely to Protestants or Catholics & is it true scot-Irish are mosty of Anglo-Saxon?

Question

I mean the Celtics of Ireland, Scotland are Catholics right & Scoth--Irish are of Anglo-Saxon heritage & as Normans, Vikings, cuz Protestants were & Germanic peoples right? so whereas Catholics of Ireland , Scotland are natives (Celtics).

Answer 1

Who cares its all there to distract us from the real issues.

Answer 2

Presbyterianism is part of Protestantism.

Protestantism has many branches whose beliefs and practices are completely, or largely, compatible with each other. There is scarcely any difference among Presbyterian, Calvinist, Lutheran, Methodist, Congregational and United Reformed churches, and still not much between them and Baptist, Episcopal and Anglican.

I think in your question you're trying to see too much of a connection between religious denomination and ethnic origin. It's true that Southern Ireland (Eire) has a predominantly Celtic and Roman Catholic population, and that the Celtic tradition of mysticism perhaps should find more in common with the myths of Roman Catholicism than with the plainer messages of Protestantism, but surely that's only a tiny element in a big big subject.

It's also true that the Protestant Reformation which began in Europe just after 1500 caught on most strongly among the Aryan and Anglo-Saxon races of the north, and not very much among the Latin races of the South. But that again can only be a tiny element in a big big subject.

When Scotland went Presbyterian in 1560, the population would be a complete mixture, with Viking in the East and far North, Celtic in the West and South-West, and Anglo-Saxon in the Central belt, the South and South-East. The minority Roman Catholic population today has just as strong an Anglo-Saxon element as an Irish Celtic element.

Answer 3

Presbyterians are Calvinist which broke away from the Church during the reformation and are therefore protestants but not the same as the followers of Martin Luther. They started in Switzerland in the 1500's and was carried to Scotland by John Knox. The Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain occurred almost a 1000 years before there were any protestants.
The Irish were converted to Christianity in the 5th century AD and the Protestants reformation never made any inroads there so they stayed Catholic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvinism

The latest DNA studies on human migration show that not only the Scots and the Irish but most of the English are descendants of Celts who came to Britain from coastal Spain 6000 years ago, not central Europe as was previously thought. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1621766.ece

Answer 4

Wow...what a lot of room this is going to take!
First, the closest organized religious following to Catholicism is Protestant. It was the movement championed by Martin Luther against the abuses of the Papacy, and is the basis of the English Reformation.
That was the easy part.
Now...Celtic...well, lets see...the remnants/descendants of the original Celtic settlers in the UK are Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English. The Celtic peoples, originally from an area known as the Sea of Grass in what is now west Kazakhstan, in ancient times, moving from there through what is now Germany, and on into what is now France, and finally into England/Scotland/Wales, and then once more into Ireland.
The original inhabitants of Ireland are lost to antiquity, but Firbolgs and Tuatha De Danaan are two major groups that migrated to Ireland a long time before the Celts. The names given to the inhabitatns by the Romans included Attacotti, Scoti, and Gael. This last word, derived from the Welsh gwyddel (meaning raiders), was eventually adopted by the Irish for themselves. Scots, in origin, made their way from Egypt via Ireland to Scotland, warring with the Picts before settling. Afterwards, their commander - a Spartan called Nel (=Niall) - named the land and people after his Egyptian wife Scota. The tale is astonishingly important, because it dates to about 980, an extremely early date, and has Scottish sources.Many influxes of other peoples, most importantly Germanic and Celtic, now gives the Scots their ancestry. One they share in common with the Irish.
The Welsh ancients are lsot to history. Most in Wales today regard themselves as Celtic, claiming a heritage back to the Iron Age tribes. The people in what is now Wales continued to speak Brythonic languages with additions from Latin, as did some other Celts in areas of Great Britain.
The people of England are a hodge-podge of many, many different peoples...Romans, Celts, Vikings and Anglo-Saxons.
As to the religious nature of the peoples, Christianity spread and was adopted by ALL the ehtnic groups, Celts, Danes, etc. Each particular area, as in the US, ahs a major bastion of one faith or another. It makes no difference culturally, ethnically or ancestrally where the people originated, it is the adoption of the religion that has defined the area.

Answer 5

The reformation of religion is what converted them. Henry the 8th and Anne of Boleyn campaigned in England (with Henry finally succeeding) and that i think John Knox replaced into the super protestant reformer in Scotland. i replaced into of the thought that the Anglo-Saxons have been the Romans who got here to Britain in the process the dark a while - a lot before the reformation. My memory on it extremely is hazy nevertheless.... As for the respond above, Northern eire is protestant with the Republic of eire being Catholic

Answer 6

Why are you so hung up on religion? Presbyterians ARE Protestants BTW. Explain why this is such a big issue to you please, otherwise stop posting such stupid questions.

Answer 7

Presbyterians are protestants and its true .~~