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Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity

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3. Yeah, unlike what that chest thumping Orange One and his followers say...

Reply to rug (Reply #2)

Sun Nov 27, 2016, 11:53 PM

Nov 2016

...it's not the religion that's the problem. It's the extremists of every religion that cause all this crap. Take away the religion and all the hatreds would still be there, they'd just find something else to latch on to and use as an excuse for their hatred.

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Catholic and Orthodox Christian churches compared [View all] rug Nov 2016 OP

I remember reading one time... 47of74 Nov 2016 #1

Good article. rug Nov 2016 #2

Yeah, unlike what that chest thumping Orange One and his followers say... 47of74 Nov 2016 #3

There were no hatreds in Ireland until the Protestants... Kolesar Dec 2016 #4

You're off by 200 years. rug Dec 2016 #5

Sorry, don't follow ... eom Kolesar Dec 2016 #6

The hatreds go back to the English invasions hundreds of years earlier. rug Dec 2016 #7

The scale is quite different. Kolesar Dec 2016 #8