Can I suggest an idea where we dont perform genecide on a race of people due to there religion?
I must thank, Dathi THorfinnsson, for pushing me towards this idea with his post.
The Very Reverend, Dr Jonathan Swift Jr.
In April 1667, Jonathan Swift, Swift had been walking around his new home-town of Dublin, when he was nearly killed by a run away horse and cart, luckily for him he had been looking at a flyer on the Church notice board, before walking out of the road, he saw this as an act of divine intervention, so when 7 months later his son, Jonathan Swift Jr., was born on 30 November 1667, the family celebrated and Jonathan Snr., promised in his prayers that night that he would devote his life in bring up his son to be a devote christian.
P.O.D Jonathan Swift Senior died, in the April of 1667, leaving his wife to return to England while their child was left with a benefactor.
Jonathan Swift was soon able to make he fortune when his brothe and himself set up their own law firm in Dublin
Swift & Swift. With the money he attained from his firm he was able to send his son to Dublin University, from which he received his B.A. in 1686. During his free time, he worked as a secretary, at his fathers firm and was often trusted with matters of great importance.
He also grew up with communities of mixed Anglicanism, Presbyterianism and Catholicism, seeing the worst and the best of them.
He was studying for his Master degree when political troubles began in Ireland surrounding the Glorious Revolution.
Swift could not under stand what the war of the two kings, was really over. He understood that conflict was between Jacobites who supported the Catholic King James II, and Williamites who in turn supported the Protestant, Prince William of Orange. But he could not see what the real difference was.
So he became a stanch supporter for peace and a political pamphleteer in the cities and towns of Ireland and became known to Field General, Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg who wrote to Prince William regarding this young man. When, he became King William III on 13 February 1689, one of his piorities was to set up a meeting with the young Jonathan Swift.
In 1690, Jonathan Swift, was greeted by King William III in London, among the talk was the subject of the up coming Treaty of Limerick, King William wanted an Irish civilian, to be among the signers and would love Swift to be that civilian, adding that it helped that he was not catholic. Swift, quickly replied that "Although I am not a catholic, I am afraid that I can not attack one religion without attacking them all."
On 3 October 1691, Jonathan Swift's signature was added to The Treaty of Limerick and by the end of the month he became Speaker of the Irish House of Commons (at King William III orders) replacing Sir Richard Nagle (who was an allie of King James II.)
As Speaker, Swift worked well with Sir Charles Porter who was in his second term as Lord Chancellor of Ireland, the two of them were able to pass laws that were in favour of at least some degree of religious toleration without upsetting to many enemies.
This create an Ireland, where religion was not a bigger issue as OTL, with Catholic ministers happily holding office with Protestant ones.
When Sir Charles Porter, died of a stroke in 1696, Jonathan Swift, was quickly promoted to the position of Lord Chancellor of Ireland an office he would hold for nearly fifty years.
In 1708, he made a dramatic speech in parliament known as "An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity" in the speech, Swift was able to answer several real and rhetorical arguments against Christianity, ending on the quote
"that if Catholicism was to be exiled, then all religion should be so banned"
At the age of 77, on 19 October 1745, Jonathan Swift died and was buried in St. Patrick's Cathederal, Dublin, leaving behind a legacy that is still felt today, a united nation within the united kingdom.