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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: Truthsayer20
True. And the conflict in Northern Ireland is fundamentally ethnic in nature, not religous.

The Catholics are mostly Irish and the Protestants are Scottish, but both are Celts.
73 posted on 03/19/2004 11:13:03 AM PST by Cronos (W2K4!)
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