(March 16, 2020 at 12:27 am)Belacqua Wrote:(March 15, 2020 at 8:53 pm)Peebo-Thuhlu Wrote: 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.
Yes, well... I'm not aware of the Hitchin's side of this discussion.
Just working at getting a level understanding of things, as it were.
Cheers.
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