When the IRA Catholics were bombing Protestant school kids were they doing the "Hail Mary" afterwards ?

Question

Get it ..... Hail Mary like after touchdowns...

Had to be there i guess.
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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

Read the book Trinity by Leon Uris some time. Though it is fiction, it is an accurate portrayal of life in Northern Ireland in the early twentieth century. While I am not justifying violence from either side, the Irish have been subject to violence and persecution at the hands of the British and even some of their own people for centuries.

Answer 3

I highly doubt it, since the murder of children is completely opposite of Catholic Christian teaching; IRA terrorists are only Catholic by cultural definition, not as a definition of actual faith.

FYI, what you refer to as a "Hail Mary" sign actually has nothing to do with Mary. It is the action of "crossing" one's self, and is a form of prayer, invoking the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

For someone to cross himself after committing such an atrocity would be to add insult to injury: as if God would somehow approve of such a sinful act just because His name was invoked over it! Someone who does this invokes even more judgement on themselves than before (as if they already weren't spiritual TOAST).

Answer 4

when UDA/UVFectr loyalists were killing innocent catholics were they saying the "Lord's Prayer" afterwards?

Answer 5

while this is an attempt at humor, the sadness is that, in todays society people often missue religion as a reason for destruction and harm.

Answer 6

I don't know. maybe the best thing to do is for you to ask them personally, isn't it?

Answer 7

do muslims **** towards mecca and scream allahu akbar when they bust?

Answer 8

the IRA are not religious they are terrorists duh otherwise they wouldnt blow anyone up religion is used as an excuse for these thugs to bomb things just for the heck of it

Answer 9

Yeah why don't you go ask them?

Answer 10

ignorant question
it had nothing to do with their faith