Family Values

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I'd better make it completely clear here that it's not my intention to link the IRA and the New Testament in such a way as to endorse either one, although presumably the apocalyptic anti-papist Protestantism of Rev. Ian Paisley has been matched to some degree by the fierce Catholicism of some IRA personnel (early on, this tendency would give rise to Jimmy Steele's slogan, Good and Holy Men for Good and Holy Causes).

Religion is inextricably intertwined in the motivations of many terrorists and insurgency fighters, and my point here is simply and only to indicate the cross-cultual and cross-millennial force of the separation from family and friends which many forms of discipline and dedication involve.