Christians of the UK were blowing each other up for decades but they never called it "Christian Terrorism" ?

Question

IRA - Catholics vs Protestants .

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Answer 1

since when do Christians want to let it show? NOT ALL CHRISTIANS but some have hateful views on muslims with their terrorism but they won't talk about the Crusades.

Answer 2

Also don't forget the Balkans - Catholics vs. Orthodox Christians. The news simplified it by referring to them just as Croats and Serbs, but if you look into it you'll find that was yet another religious conflict.

They did call it terrorism (in Northern Ireland), but they did a good job of making those terrorists look like a small group of bad apples. Also that conflict never went global as Islamic terrorism has, but then again, all that was aflame 20 years ago when economics weren't so global either.

The greater point is that Islam holds no monopoly on bloody conflicts in the name of God. The Crusades were a long time ago but in a part of the world where grudges last for generations upon generations, it clearly wasn't long ago enough.

And the saddest part is--justification for holy wars can be found in the holy books of both Islam and Christianity. And yet...we never grasp that our book might be leading us in the wrong direction as a species.

Answer 3

Having lived for a time in Ireland while the fighting was at worst, to classify that as a "Christian against Christian" conflict would be wrong. It was very much a political conflict between people who wanted to remain part of Great Britian, and others who wanted Ireland to be an independent country. And their actions were considered "terrorism" when they are happening.

Because the Protestant church within Great Britian is the Church of England and is headed by the Ruler of England, those who sought to be free from England would also reject the English (Protestant) religion, and confess the older (pre-Church of England) Catholic religion which dominated Ireland for centuries.

So while the groups involved were often split between Catholic and Protestant in their faith, their fighting was about political issues and independence, and never (or very rarely) was religion uses as other a motivation for their fighting or a reason for attack another person.

With much of the terrorism happening today, religion is being used as both a strong motivation (such as "72 virgins in heaven") or as a reason for picking the victims (kill them because they are "Jewish" regardless of their political views).

Answer 4

This is more of a majority versus minority issue. Christians make up a larger percentage of the British population than Muslims. To call it Christian terrorism would be seen as not descriptive enough. However, calling it Islamic terrorism when Muslims are the culprit is simulaneously seen as acceptable (as it is the most effective and concise label for the group, as they do not make up the majority of the population). As for the use of the word terrorism itself to describe the latter rather than the former, that is just blatant bias.

Answer 5

If you care to check the history books, this terrorism in the UK was not about religion but about territory. The fact that religion was involved (because the majority in one area were catholics and the majority in the other area were protestants) did not make it a 'christian war'.

Answer 6

That's because it is so much more than just religious principal, the Irish had been oppressed and taxed and mistreated for centuries, as well as the Scots, we Americans live on another Continent far far away and made a stand back in the day and declared our independence from England, would you call us terrorists for wanting our own government, which we faught for and murdered several red coats to get? saying that it is just Protestants vs Catholics is simplifying it.

Answer 7

You can call it Catholic terrorism or Protestant terrorism but not Christian terrorism as both groups are Christian.

You define a group ( mob )behavior by the differences not similarities

Answer 8

For one thing, they weren't trying to convert non-Christians. Also, they weren't suicide bombers, pilots crashing planes into skyscrapers with innocent civilians, or anything like that. Catholic children would be killed on their way to Catholic school simply for being Catholic. There have been more Catholic martyrs in the past century than in all of the other centuries combined. You can't blame the Irish Catholics, then, for fighting back.

I hope you aren't trying to justify Islamic Terrorism...

Answer 9

They never called it Christian terrorism because they had enough sense to distinguish the difference. Labels do not make you Christian. Apparently most understand that with a few exceptions such as yourself.

Answer 10

It wasn't done in the name of religion. It was communitarian. In the Bible Jesus is so tied in with loving your neighour etc that its not really possible to be taking the New Testament seriously and using terrorism. If Jesus and the apostles had behaved violently, instead of just using the force of argument, terrorism could be explicitly christian.