Edit: The Catholic-Protestant thing in Northern Ireland is somewhat misunderstood by many outside NI. It has bugger all to do with theological disagreements over how exactly one should worship God, nobody gives a fuck about that, it's more about tribalism. If you asked most people what the actual theological differences are between Protestantism and Catholicism I guarantee most wouldn't have a fucking clue and would probably respond with something about "taigs" "huns" and "fenian bastards". It's a bout "them'uns" and "us'uns". I mean do you think these people below have a deep theological understanding of Catholicism and Protestantism? Do you think they've even set foot in a church?
Plenty of theological disagreements are less "I'm troubled by your interpretation of this text" and more "me and my mob want your shit" and/or "fuck your mob, you're different and that's bad."
Palestinians and Israelis, Serbs and Croats. Don't think these were mainly about theological disagreements.
True, and a fair point but people here are a special kind of ignorant and a unique kind of stupid. I'd bet money a fair number of people here in the"protestant community" don't know what Catholicism even is, that its even a religion. All they know is, "Durrr fenians!"
Also I've heard and read things by people, including the likes of Richard Dawkins, that make it clear that some don't get it Unlike certain terror groups in the world , for example, neither the protestant nor catholic terror groups did what they did in the name of God or because of their religious beliefs (even if some Loyalist groups did use the slogan "For God and Ulster"). People, again including Dawkins, often talk about them in a way that makes it obvious they view them as more or less being the same as some of the Islamic groups, overemphasising the religious aspect. But the IRA wasn't trying to create a Catholic theocracy, and the protestants weren't trying to create a Protestant theocracy (except maybe the DUP lol). Nobody shouted "God is great!" before blowing up a pub. I mean, as I said before the man considered the father of the Republican movement was a Protestant. I doubt the founder of ISIS or Al Queda are Christians, or Jewish, or Wiccans or whatever else. The IRA, UDA et all can't be compared to the Islamic terror groups, I wish certain people would stop doing so.