Agnosticism IS the most dishonest position

[Belacqua]

So... you're aware, then, of a one Mr Cromwell and his actions?

For those 'Closer to the events' please correct me.

I would think his innitial actions would be the correct 'Beginning' of the events in northern ireland. Or why there even 'Is' a Northern ireland.

Not at work.

You could make a strong case that for Cromwell, the religious was not separate from the political. I hear that he was motivated in large part by opposition to Catholicism. So I think that if Christopher Hitchens wants to claim that religious divisions cause violence, Cromwell would be a better bet. It wouldn't fit with his rhetoric about places that begin with B however. 

We'd have to be careful about what is economic, what is colonial, what is religious, etc., but in Cromwell's case they are harder to tease apart.