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Originally Posted by savantuk
God didn't start religion. People started religion. Corrupt people corrupted religion, and morally corrupt people twist religon to their own means today. Bigotry is what fuels the troubles in Ulster.
I've spent a lot of time there, including being one of the first on the ground in 1970. I've spoken at length to both Catholic and Protestant. They don't want any trouble. They hate the troubles perhaps more than anybody else.
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Couldn't agree more with the point highlighted, but what i've always failed to come to terms with is the Irish obsession to hold parades which seem to have no other purpose other than to 'bait' and antagonize the 'opposition'.
Even funerals get turned into a circus with throngs of people marching along waving banners and banging their drums, accompanied by the obligatory shaven headed thugs who walk with an imaginary barrel between their legs and under each arm.
Why cannot the Catholic and Protestant in Ireland live side by side, next door neighbours, as they do here in England? If they both
really hate the trouble so much.....then why don't
they do something about it?