Saturday 16 October 2010

DUP Supports Secularism

DUP Supports Secularism


DUP leader Peter Robinson has called for an end to school segregation; he said, ‘The education of Protestant and Catholics in separate schools in Northern Ireland is a benign form of apartheid; ‘What I do object to is the state providing and funding church schools.’ This is indeed a bold speech by the DUP leader; it cuts right across what Paisleyism had stood for in the past; it reveals that the seeds of Secularism, which Ian Paisley planted as he entered the Power Sharing Executive, are now being cultivated by his own party leader.

Such a Secularist agenda will uproot Biblical Protestantism from our society and leave it a prey to Humanism and Atheism; Christian principles and standards are foundational to education in a Protestant Christian country and must not be compromised. Mr Robinson recommended that a commission is set up to examine a way of bringing about integration; is this a stunt to provide jobs for redundant MLAS? Or is it an attempt to do what ecumenism has failed to so far; to return Biblical Protestantism to the Roman fold.

I believe that this is the thin end of the wedge to establish a totally secular society and ultimately to destroy Biblical Protestantism in Ulster. This DUP proposal reeks to high heaven of Protestant betrayal and Biblical treachery; it is inconceivable to imagine that Protestant parents would allow their children to be educated in an unscriptural and ungodly environment. The Scriptures teach, ‘Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.’ Prov22:6. Just imagine what it would be like to send your child to a school that did not have or hold Christian principles and standards; it would be an outrage to any evangelical Protestant.

It is very difficult for evangelical Protestants to understand the enigma of Paisleyism at present; in the past it demanded separation from political and spiritual compromise; now it advocates the complete opposite, integration. The only possible conclusion to be reached is that compromise and duplicity have taken hold and that apostasy is growing at an alarming rate.

Rev Mervyn Cotton (Heb13:6)

1 comment:

  1. Rev. Cotton,

    As you have so stated, the groundwork for the agenda presently being advanced by Peter Robinson is one which was laid by Ian Paisley on his watch when he assumed the position of First Minister of Northern Ireland in May of 2007.
    His decision necessitated a compromise of his Christian principles and an embracing of the politically correct ideology of secularism, tolerance and inclusion, a stand that would inevitably be shown to represent the conflict of interest he had entered into, so evidently brought to light in the controversy that ensued over so-called 'Equality Legislation' during Paisley's brief tenure as First Minister.

    Inasmuch as the GOSPEL MINISTER has avowed to uphold God's laws at all times and to stand for all that Christ is for and all that He is against, contrariwise, the PUBLIC SERVANT . . as in the case of Ian Paisley as First Minister, has sworn to uphold the law of the land as he himself has so stated:

    'The office of First Minister and the Deputy First Minister is totally committed to promoting equality of human rights, and the First Minister and the Deputy First Minister are completely opposed to any form of discrimination or harassment”

    Source / Article: 'Paisley tells Stormont: 'My boy may end up working on gay legislation'.
    The Daily Mail (London, England) / Jun 12, 2007
    http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Paisley+tells+Stormont:+%27My+boy+may+end+up+working+on+gay...-a0164862484

    Paisley said this in the context of Equality Legislation that grants monies to the sodomite cause! How can such a statement be reconciled to His Stand for CHRIST?
    He has never retracted this remark made in connection with providing monies for the sodomite cause, unarguably not the CAUSE OF CHRIST!
    How tragic indeed that such an agenda continues to be furthered by professing Christians.

    “Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.” (Ps. 12:1)

    In Christian solidarity,

    June / Ask Dr. Paisley (II Cor. 6:17-18)

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