2007-11-05 17:16:31 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Freedom fighter.
2007-11-05 17:19:22 · answer #1 · answered by Happily Happy 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
The IRA represents political terror, not religous. If the aim of the IRA was to promote a religious agenda, as opposed to a political agenda, they would have made this clear in naming themselves the Irish Catholic Army, as opposed to the clearly political agenda of the Irish Republican Army.
2007-11-07 13:38:31 · answer #2 · answered by Daver 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only in the sense that it was the Irish that were really a part of it and they tended to be catholic. When the Catholic and Anglican church split so Henry VIII could get a divorce, the Catholics were not widely liked. The Irish were not widely liked as well and the two together made some violent combinations.
2007-11-06 01:25:00 · answer #3 · answered by Chris A 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Not only catholic but Irish nationalist. The most important distinction being Irish nationalist. They terrorized for the unification of Ireland under Irish rule.
2007-11-06 01:34:29 · answer #4 · answered by Jim 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The IRA 'was' a "Catholic Faith Based Initiative" ... but that's old News. Where have you been the last decade ?
2007-11-06 01:20:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Despite what we have been led to believe by the mass media, the war in Northern Ireland has very little to do with religion. The I.R.A. believes that Northern Ireland is part of Ireland not part of England, or Britain, or anywhere else.
It is a struggle against colonialism in its most classic form.
2007-11-06 01:23:54 · answer #6 · answered by wee falorie man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the same sense that a pedophile claiming to be a Baptist is a "Baptist terror".
Jim, http://www.life-after-harry-potter.com
2007-11-06 01:19:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
all wars and massacres are in god's name
2007-11-06 01:21:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋