Is Northern Ireland giving religion a bad name?

Half Term 3 Week 6

Catholic Protestant

Place of worship: Church, chapel, cathedral Church, chapel, cathedral

Birth of Jesus: Virgin Birth Virgin Birth

Authority of Pope: Affirmed Denied.

Death of Jesus: Death by Crucifixion Death by Crucifixion

Confessing sins: To God through priests, and through Jesus To God through Jesus

Savior: Jesus Christ Jesus Christ

Resurrection of Jesus: Affirmed Affirmed

Time of origin: c. 33 AD c. 33 AD, but believe it eventually became corrupt. Split off in an attempt to return to church's origins approx. 1517 - 1534 A.D.

Clergy: The Pope, followed by Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops, and Priests, and Deacons.

Each church independent, headed by Pastors, Elders, and Deacons.

Status of Adam: Sin came into the world, through Adam. Sin came into the world, through Adam.

Marriage: The Holy union of a man and woman. What God has bound together, no person can separate.

The Holy union of a man and woman. What God has bound together, Divorce permitted.

Founder: Jesus Christ, followed by Peter as the first Pope, then all Popes following Peter.

Jesus Christ, followed by Peter, Paul, and other disciples of Jesus. Position of The Pope denied, and eventually split off of The Catholic church to attempt to re-establish the original church.

Mary: Mary was chosen by God to be the mother of Jesus through a virgin birth. Thus, she is considered holy, and may be prayed to as an intercessor to God.

Mary was chosen by God to be the mother of Jesus through a virgin birth, but is otherwise simply a human with no other special attributes.

Purgatory: An intermediate state between earth and heaven is recognised, but cleansing and purification occur in this life, not the next.

Does not exist

Goal of religion: Peace, Love and wilful submission to God. A relationship with Jesus

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Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland was created in 1921, when Ireland was partitioned between Northern Ireland

and Southern Ireland by an act of the British parliament. Unlike Southern Ireland, which would become the Irish Free State in 1922, the majority of the population of Northern Ireland wanted to

remain within the United Kingdom. Most of these were the Protestant descendants of colonists

from Great Britain. However, a significant minority wanted a united Ireland independent of

British rule, and most of these were CatholicsCatholic = republican Protestant = Loyalist

Troubles.

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In the late 1960s, conflict between the two communities, and involving state forces, erupted into three decades of violence known as The Troubles,

which claimed over 3,500 lives.

Troubles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2ZsUEg1y5I

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Good Friday Agreement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxIkWYZsjpE

Good Friday Agreement

The Good Friday Agreement or Belfast Agreement was a major political development in the Northern Ireland peace process of the 1990s. Northern

Ireland's present devolved system of government is based on the Agreement. The Agreement also created a number of institutions between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and between the Republic of

Ireland and the United Kingdom.

The Agreement is made up of two inter-related documents, both agreed in Belfast on Good Friday, 10 April 1998:

1.a multi-party agreement by most of Northern Ireland's political parties;2.an international agreement between the British and Irish governments (the British-Irish Agreement).

This is a political agreement

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So is there Peace?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwB4YFgaPEY

The Orange Order

The Orange Order is a Protestant organisation formed to commemorate William the Orange’s victory over the Catholic Irish at the Battle of the Boyne. They commemorate this victory by marching. However, their Marches take them through Catholic areas of Belfast. This angered the Catholics, and led to riots. To control this, the N.Irish government banned the Orange Order from marching through Catholic areas. This angered the Protestants and this led to riots. This is just one example of sectarianism in Northern Ireland, there are others on both sides.

Both sides have had hatred taught to them from an

early age, and neither side is willing to give ground.

Is Northern Ireland giving religion a bad name?Or is religion fuelling the problems

in Northern Ireland?

Are these synonyms?

Republican/nationalist/CatholicsLoyalists/Unionists/Protestants

Which ones are the odd ones out?

A Moment to reflect

Help us to have the sense to see a person for who her or she is, rather than judge them by which god they worship. Help us to separate issues of politics from issues of faith and use the peaceful systems that are in place to effect the change that we wish to see.

May your faith support you