On Sunday, March 30, 2003, Harmon Seaver came up with this... HS> IIRC, the protestants aren't Irish, they are Brits, the remainder of the brit HS> occupying forces. The Irish were essentially slaves of the brits for centuries.
The six counties now known as Northern Ireland would not be separate from the rest if there wasn't an Irish Protestant majority there. There were many Scots there, there were fewer English, but they are for the most part very Irish. HS> But of course, the problems really pre-date all that, going back to when the HS> christer Romans came and killed off the Druids and Wiccans who wouldn't bend the HS> knee to conversion, as they did in the rest of Europe. First of all, 'wicca' is some bullshit thought up by a delusional old man less than 75 years ago, the only persecution of wiccans the world has seen is when they get made fun of in high school. Second, the Romans had an incredibly difficult time in Great Britain. They managed to traverse most of England, but Ireland they barely even visited. And Scotland, well, they were so scared of us they built walls to keep us out. :) You give too much credit to the Romans. Catholicism worked so well because it is a virus, and conversion was often forced upon heathens by their fellow countrymen. -- stuart Anyone who tells you they want a utopia wants to put chains on the souls of your children. They want to deny history and strangle any unforeseen possibility. They should be resisted to the last breath. -Bruce Sterling-
