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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
I guess I never considered the IRA to be Christian Fundies like we consider a CF to be a CF in the US... Sure, but like she said I don't see who groups of Christian Fundies blowing things and themselves up because they have disagreements.
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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl
You could have told a member of the IRA just 10 years ago (Omagh - 29 High Street shoppers dead, over 200 injured)...
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Originally Posted by smoothmoniker
against abortion providers in the US has resulted in 7 deaths, total.
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I wasn't trying to align Christian fundamentalists with the IRA. All I wanted to point out was that Christians are quite willing to kill eachother, and non-combatants, when it suits them.
The Peace Talks helped enormously, but the main reason that paramilitary bombings stopped in Northern Ireland/ on the mainland was 9/11. American sympathy for anyone bombing civilians was suddenly too close to home to be accepted as "glory".