Catholic vs protestant?

Question

why don't they like each other and how did this descend into the IRA being protestant vs catholic?

Answer 1

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 2

yeah, I'd be confused too, if I was you. And when the others say "troll" I think what they really mean is "poe". There's nothing confusing about it. Catholics are taught that Jesus is the "Way the Truth and the Life". I heard this so many times growing up you would be proud. I'm surprised you didn't hear about it too when you were growing up "as a Catholic" And trust me, Catholics get emotional as well. It seems dry and hard at times, always about duty and doing what's right, but I'll tell you this right now what Catholics have that protestants DON'T have: and that's the Holy Eucharist. There is nothing more personal, once you realize what the words mean, and pay attention to them, than Jesus being received into your body every Sunday (and you can go there every day of the week if you want), and understanding that everything in His Life, His Spirit, His Way, is shared with you in this mystical experience that seems, on the surface, to be nothing at all....an experience so unappreciated and undervalued, that when you finally realize the great gift you have been given, you will fall flat on your face an weep with gratitude. That will end the confusion. The rosary is not the issue. Works is not an issue. What is important is Jesus, you and God. That is all. Protestants can't give you that. Emotion is not truth. Truth is truth. Here is truth: Protestants would not have a bible if Catholics had not preserved it. There were no protestants before the Reformation, there were heretics. (wrong doctrine) There are no recorded miracles in the protestant churches. The Catholic church thoroughly investigates every claim and records it. Before the reformation and even for a long while afterwards ALL CHRISTIANS believed in the Immaculate and sinless nature of the Blessed Virgin. And the devil is the Lord of Confusion.

Answer 3

It all comes back to the Ulster Plantations (English/Scottish Protestants sent by Queen Elizabeth to colonize Ireland. This included occupying the land of the native Irish, who were Catholic) in the 17th century. Basically there's been troubles between Catholics and Protestants ever since.
The IRA began in the 19th century, when many Irish people (mainly Catholic) began to argue for Independence from the Great Britain. This eventually happened but not ALL of Ireland, the counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down, Londonderry, Fermanagh and Tyrone remained under British rule.
The Troubles (conflict from the 1960s until about the 1990s) was more political than religious. Religion was used as an excuse to fight the 'other side'. Any Christian i know has never supported the IRA or any Protestant paramilitaries.
God bless you

Answer 4

The IRA are predominately Catholic and the situation that was in Northern Ireland was more political than actually to do with religion - Unionists were predominately Protestant having come from Britain and Nationalist Irish being mainly Catholic - in similiar way the fans football teams Rangers and Celtic hate one another too.
Earlier than that the hate between Catholics and Protestants orginated from the fact that the major players in Europe all sought to carve out their territory in the name of 'God' so the used religious differences as their excuse.

This is a very simplicised version but that's what it is in a nut shell.

Answer 5

OK...first the IRA fought for a united Ireland, not Catholic vs. Protestant...

They hate each other because PROTESTants protested the Catholic church and left...

Answer 6

The cat-aholic church has been using Ireland as a launching pad to try to destroy the Church of England for years. Every single blood bath that has taken place in Ireland over the years is because of mama--and no one else!

And the American versions of the catholic church think everyone is just misinform about who mama really is. It really is a matter of who's kidding whom? This is the reasons why Ireland remained neutral during the second World War so they would be killing off their on people by fighting against catholic Germany and Italy.

During the mid-1990's, an American TV station, ABC, showed how the catholic church was kidded napping young girls, as mama put it, "for their own good" for slave labour. They claimed that mama stopped such acts in 1993. As of today, no one in the satan's church has been held accountable. And needless to say, no one at mama is willing to talk.

Answer 7

You have to go back in history to when Ireland was Catholic and persecuted the protestants. Then when the next King changed the national religion the protestants retaliated against the catholics. It has gone on ever since then.

Answer 8

IRA is for a free Ireland, mostly cathoholic, and the protestants are mostly English. I like Irish, but, being a Scotsman, I can't say the same for the English. I don't approve of either of their religions.

Answer 9

I'm Catholic and religious differences are not enough to make me not like someone. My best friend is protestant. It shouldn't be an issue and its sad that it is.

Answer 10

Descend is the right word. The reasons for the conflict are no longer relevant. It has devolved into retaliation for retaliation. Religion is one of the things held up as a totem to make it appear less like retaliation/hate and more like a 'legitimate' reason.