On 01/16/2016 06:08 PM, rbowman wrote:
On 01/16/2016 03:11 PM, T wrote:
Actually, being a member of such an organization in Ireland is
an instant excommunication from the Catholic church. The IRA
is a communist organization that uses "Catholic" as a label
and to muddle what they are really all about.

The Provos split from the Originals in '69 because some of the
leadership was Marxist. The OIRA (Marxist) continued on but the PIRA was
the main branch.

The Bishops spoke against the 1916 Rising. Why not; they knew which side
their bread was buttered on.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/con...09/cathsoc.htm

That's a short essay by James Connolly on the place of the church.
Connolly was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising and was executed by
the Brits 12 May 1916. He had been severely wounded so they carried him
to the jail courtyard on a stretcher, tied him to a chair, and shot him.

That execution was the greatest tool for Republican recruitment that the
Brits could have devised. Their second greatest was Bloody Sunday in
1972. Governments never seem to catch on.

The British can be absolute *******s when they want to. In the
Revolutionary war they murdered our prisoners. In New Your,
they tossed us in a cellar to starve to death. The
words British and atrocity go hand in hard though out
history.