"Ah, if only we'd listened to O'Neill back then, we could have avoided 30 years of the violence"

[barryqwalsh]

"It is frightfully hard to explain to Protestants that if you give Roman Catholics a good job and a good house they will live like Protestants because they will see neighbours with cars and television sets; they will refuse to have 18 children.

"But if a Roman Catholic is jobless, and lives in the most ghastly hovel, he will rear 18 children on National Assistance. If you treat Roman Catholics with due consideration and kindness, they will live like Protestants in spite of the authoritative nature of their Church."

Half-a-century on we ve still to learn lessons of Terence O Neill - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

 

[TheOldSchool]

That's funny because in the U.S. it's the Protestants and the other feel good denominations of Christianity that branched off of Catholicism who crap out endless babies when they're broke.

 

[Statistikhengst]

And the powers behind the scene who so want to divide homo sapiens wherever they can must be proud of the work they are doing.

 

[TheOldSchool]

And the powers behind the scene who so want to divide homo sapiens wherever they can must be proud of the work they are doing.

Don't mind me I'm just tryna slap a ho

 

[whitehall]

Few people in the Colonies are able to rise to the level of outrage exhibited in the never ending Irish bigotry between Protestants and Catholics. You could say they don't really give a shit either.

 

[indiajo]

Few people in the Colonies are able to rise to the level of outrage exhibited in the never ending Irish bigotry between Protestants and Catholics. You could say they don't really give a shit either.

Well, because I am not a colonist I know that this has originally nothing to do with religion.
It is the inherited battle of the Irish against british ursupators.
Catholics and Protestants (or better Anglicans) are absolutely congruent with Irish and British.