If you are a Protestant in the U.K. do they still march through Catholic areas to more or less?

Question

instigate violence? and to our own people in the U.S., do you think that some of these answers that are so anti-Catholic are the U.K. people exporting their hatred for Catholics?

Answer 1

Each year on November 5th they burn Guy Fawkes and sometimes images of the pope.

If Guy were gay or ethnic it would not be tolerated.

But since he was Catholic - it's encouraged. To them he's a terrorist. To us, he's a freedom fighter.

Answer 2

Heh, where do you live? PLEASE do not answer this question. I do not think that Yahoo! Answers is necessarily a safe web site. People enter it at their own risk.

I see you have a probelm with parades. LOL

I do not live in the UK or the United States.

Have you noticed that every parade in town seems to be brought to the public by the same people?

Why don't you get hold of a copy of the Ray Stevens CD titled 'Lassoes 'n Spurs' and listen to 'Shriners Convention'. It pretty much sums up parades, at least in English speaking countries if not many others.

Of course many parades intentionally stir up hatred and violence. I suspect myself that the main motivation behind these, what I term "stonecutter parades" is to flaunt things and make others desire things, In this way the "stonecutters" can entice people to sell out for more and to do others out.

e.g. the beauty queens, the Job's Daughter queeen, the baton twirlers, the showy cars. I am not sure who could be jealous of the Shriners on their mopeds. They get more and more rickety every year. The standing joke is that the young ones on the rise are called the Hell's Angels.

The problem is hardly uniques to the U.K. or to Northern Ireland. The same force is behind much of the iolence and social upheaval in many parts of the globe.

Answer 3

actually Midge
I will tell you what I have seen of this first hand
I was in the orange order when I was growing up
and yes we were taught to hate Catholics ( as protestants )
however
not once during these marches did we instigate violence
people who followed along side us did
we ceased playing as we passed by chapels
and all we wanted was to play
we went to a park for a few hours or church if it was a church parade
and then we simply marched back

yes , there is a Catholic Protestant divide
but no these marches are not violent
some of the followers are though

but I am glad that is well in the past for me though , I will be honest

Answer 4

this is a remnant of a time the place the U.ok had complete administration over eire after the dissolution of the monasteries and has grown right into a prepare because of the fact that then. extremely eire is somewhat Catholic yet some aspects nonetheless unswerving to the united kingdom especially in Northern eire which remains below our administration have super Protestant aspects and that they prefer to pass marching around the area to allow different persons be attentive to we are Protestant and we can rub your faces in it. there is often 2 sides to the tale in spite of the shown fact that......

Answer 5

Na, there's plenty of anti-Catholicism in the U.S. It was a huge deal for JFK to be elected in the first place and no other Catholic has gotten close since.

I saw far more of it in the U.S. than I have since I moved to the UK.

Answer 6

Fundy Christians in America their main focus is on destroying the Catholic Church

Answer 7

From a historical standpoint. Catholics started the violence in all of Europe.

** Yes, we Protestant, European, Americans have a fear and dislike of Catholicism and have good reasons for it. We were chased from our homelands to the new world by the religion and it was outlawed for a good while. Ever since JFK this country hasn't been the same. That's why I am voting for Fred Thompson and not Giuliani. ;)

Answer 8

No, I am American and am not too enchanted with Catholicism. I married a Catholic and that cinched it for me. But my ancestors being murdered by the Catholic church is not a good impression either. I don't shout at Catholics though and my daughter was briefly engaged to one.