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It's a cycle of violence fueled by hurt, anger and desire for revenge, if anything. One person or group of people hate/fear another person or group of people then the hate/fear becomes 'reason' enough to attack. It's hardly anything to do with religion at all. A denomination in the case of Protestant/Catholic violence is merely a label with which someone identifies in order to take part in the violence. I mean, if they truly had any faith, they would practice the faith to which they prescribe.

Heads up: the mods will be keeping an eye on this thread just in case it becomes a denomination war.

This topic has the potential to become a flaming war; hopefully, that will not happen.

Someone once said in this thread: "Denominations, Satan's job made easy." Denominations do nothing but separate the Church (and by the Church I mean Christians). The killing, I think, is a result of ignorance, and fear as a result of that, and hatred as a result of that. This is why we're supposed to be unified as one Body.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but that isn't going to happen. People (in general) are too stupid and too stubborn to agree on anything.

I am not trying to do Protestant vs Catholic. I am just trying to express the stupidity of the fight.

I think it comes from our basic flaw as humans. We naturally want power, control, popularity, to be thought of as being correct, and to hurt those who don't give us what we want. Along with these comes the basic instincts to protect and defend what helps us survive or what's important to us.
The Catholics had a lot of power and control in Europe. When Martin Luther posted the 95 theses on the door of the church going against some of what the Catholics taught, it hurt them and their basic human instinct (I'm not completely sure that's the right word...hopefully you get what I'm saying) compelled them to take action against the threat to their power. Unfortunately for them, the theses got the attention of the people, and some of them broke off to create the Protestent church. So with the Catholics attacking them and their beliefs, the Protestents fought back and the result led to the current fighting between them, with a long history of violence and bloodshed behind them.

However I will agree with you that there is little use in the constant fighting between them. In this case, along with many others, diplomacy would be a better course of action. Sitting down and discussing your differences and/or agreeing to disagree would be much more peaceful and would probably resolve the issue faster. However, seeing as it is a human instinct to fight when we get angry or hurt or pushed aside or a number of other things, I doubt they will stop fighting and continue the peaceful discussion, unless someone spectacular comes along and keeps them talking. Last I heard on Ireland, someone (and I forget who and don't feel like looking it up) came in and managed to sit both sides down. I think that might have been a few years ago, so I don't have any current info.

The same reason Israelis and Palestinians kill one another.

Now it's much more over land and revenge than the actual faith bit. Plus, now many of the children are raised radical, and their trained that way from a young age. The guy I'm dating has cousins in Ireland, and he said they're all nuts, and I also think they were involved in a very large conflict in Ireland in the 90s, though I don't really remember which. There's a lot of work that needs to be done in these areas.

I'm glad I'm non-denominational mad