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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (10035)9/22/2001 11:59:50 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (4) of 74559
 
Hi Mq - I know a couple of guys who say they contribute to the IRA. Next time I see them I will say something.

I can understand the desire of Protestants to not live in a country where the Catholic church has so much input into the government - just as I can understand the desire of Catholics not to live in a country where the Anglican church has (had?) so much input into the government. Northern Ireland was settled by Protestants hundreds of years ago, it's majority Protestant, and they have the right to vote for whatever form of government they choose.

The H is half Irish-American, but his ancestors who settled there were originally from Scotland, and were Protestant. He doesn't think of himself as Irish, he still thinks Scotland. He wears a Scottish kilt sometimes and took bagpipe lessons. So maybe those people didn't assimilate well.

He used to have a cat named Oliver Catwell, named after Oliver Cromwell, and he thinks of Cromwell as a hero. My friends who contribute to the IRA think Cromwell was a monster.

I make an easy distinction between believing in God and letting churches tell government what to do. I think the Protestant fear of the Pope is archaic. I remember when it was a big deal that Jack Kennedy was elected President. He was the first (and only) Catholic elected president in the US.
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