From: Ellen K. 

Well, then they are a political organization, not a religious one.  My point exactly.

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 10:00:43 -0000, "Phil Payne"
 wrote in message
:

>> I'm not familiar enough with the IRA to know whether they consider
>> themselves Christians, but everything I ever read about them indicated
>> they were Irish nationalists as opposed to e.g. agitating for the
>> practice of Catholicism over Protestantism.
>
>Read their manifesto.  Dedicated, radical communists commited to the
>overthrow not only of British administration of Northern Ireland but also
>the government of Eire, replacing both with a fundamental Marxist state.
>
>Always amazed me that they got so much support from the USA.
>

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