Word: sectarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, beneath the fortress where Protestants and Catholics fought one another 280 years ago, religious warfare erupted again in Northern Ireland. In the worst outbreak of sectarian violence since Ulster was severed from the newly partitioned Irish Free State in 1921, bitterly divided Catholics and Protestants battled one another first with rocks, then with Molotov cocktails, and finally with savage gunfire. Despite the deployment of British troops, the first to be used against Irish rioters since the Black and Tans of half a century ago, armed clashes spread swiftly to at least ten cities and towns. At week...
Unequal Treatment. Relations between Ulster's 1,000,000 Protestants and its Catholic minority of 500,000 have been severely strained ever since Northern Ireland was separated from the South. In the past ten months, however, sectarian bitterness has mounted, as Catholics intensified their protest against a system that had always shortchanged them in housing, employment and voting. It was a system that changed glacially, since it has been dominated by the Protestant-run Union Party and a Protestant oligarchy. Ironically, the Protestants were at last beginning to meet Catholic demands...
Krishna Consciousness is a non-sectarian combination of Indian relations. One follower called it "a study of Dharma, the Eternal Religion." The essential part of the study is chanting, through which, "it becomes revealed to you what the spiritual world...
Brain washing, begun as early as possible and continued throughout life, is the sectarian process. Prospective clerics are brain-washed for years...
Each sect has its own "reforms" from time to time and may talk of "unity," but that is like clipping a few whiskers off the sectarian tiger and leaving the temper and the claws of the tiger intact...