taken note of by irish journalist t p o'mahony in a sept piece where he writes leaders of the mainstream christian church in the north have always been uneasy with any depiction of the troubles as a religious war or even as a war with a religious dimension yet the subject matter of martin dillon s book god and the gun the church and irish terrorism is sufficient to remove any doubt that extremist political religion was and remains an irish phenomenon every bit as destructive as the perverted islam of al qaeda or boko haram or isis