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To: presidio9
About 5 percent of of Irish in Northern Ireland- both Protestant and Catholic- regularly attend church services. I doubt most even know what the differences in theology are between the two sects.
25 posted on 03/19/2004 10:16:31 AM PST by Burkeman1 ("I said the government can't help you. I didn't say it couldn't hurt you." Chief Wiggam)
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To: Burkeman1
"About 5 percent of of Irish in Northern Ireland- both Protestant and Catholic- regularly attend church services. I doubt most even know what the differences in theology are between the two sects."

True. And the conflict in Northern Ireland is fundamentally ethnic in nature, not religous.

39 posted on 03/19/2004 10:35:39 AM PST by Truthsayer20
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To: Burkeman1
About 5 percent of of Irish in Northern Ireland- both Protestant and Catholic- regularly attend church services. I doubt most even know what the differences in theology are between the two sects.

Where'd you pluck that figure out of? And you can be damned sure the people on the Falls Road and the Shankill Road know the difference between their faiths.

800 posted on 03/22/2004 5:24:59 AM PST by Happygal (Le gách dea ghuí)
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