"Is it a fact that non-believers are persecuted by Christians in Ireland Jim?"
They certainly have been in the past and they would be again if the Christian Church hadn't shat in its own nest by allowing their clergy to help themselves to our children - not just in Ireland of course, and certainly not just Catholics.
"What do the bastards do to you Jim?W
More to the point - what have they done to you.
Bastards - a term of abuse aimed at children born out of wedlock - the church doesn't approve of them either and so, apparently, neither do you.
Religions are prospective terrorists by their very nature and the mindset that places them above the rest of us never really goes away, it just lies dormant until the next time.
Still "he hit me harder sir" Mike - a bit pathetic, even for you.
You have about the same level of imagination as your friend.
Jim Carroll

"NOT SORRY AND WILL DO IT AGAIN
Even in the 20th century, Catholic authorities have tried to present the Inquisition in an undeservedly flattering light. Cardinal Lépicier, expressly supported by Pope Pius X, (Pope from 1903-14) declared the church's reign of terror was right, just because the church did it:
"The naked fact that the Church, of her own authority, has tried heretics and condemned them to be delivered to death, shows that she truly has the right of killing ... [W]ho dares to say that the Church has erred in a matter so grave as this?"
In fact, many have dared to say so.
Charles Leland wrote, "When people believe, or make believe, in a thing so very much as to torture like devils and put to death hundreds of thousands of fellow-beings, mostly helpless and poor old women, not to mention many children, it becomes a matter of very serious import to all humanity to determine once for all whether the system or code according to which this was done was absolutely right for ever, or not." Anthropologist Jules Henry said, "Organized religion, which likes to fancy itself the mother of compassion, long ago lost its right to that claim by its organized support of organized cruelty." G.G. Coulton said of the Inquisition, "History affords few plainer examples of the demoralizing effects of absolute power upon fairly ordinary men."
http://freetruth.50webs.org/A2d.htm

and

http://darylilbury.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/anti-abortion-activism-the-hidden-terrorism/