Smoke Screen to Cover Paisleyism
With regard to the article carried in the Belfast Newsletter yesterday, ‘Funding of Catholic schools must end’, it appears that Rev Brian McClung is cherry picking the DUP leader's comments. Peter Robinson, clearly proposed integrated education; he said, ‘We cannot hope to move beyond our present community divisions while our young people are educated separately’; in fact he recommended the establishment of a commission to examine a way of bringing about integration.
Perhaps Rev McClung would be kind enough to respond to the fact that Mr Robinson has proposed an integrated education system in Protestant Ulster; this is a complete reversal of the policies and practices of Paisleyism not so long ago. I just wonder if Rev McClung’s comments are an intended smoke screen to conceal the embarrassing position that the Free Presbyterian Church finds itself in; if anyone other than the DUP proposed integrated education, Free Presbyterians would object in the strongest possible terms; so what is the matter now?.
I do understand that Rev McClung was speaking in a personal capacity; however, was this in respect of the Free Presbyterian Church or with respect to, Administrator of the Independent Christian School in Newtownabbey? It matters not the amount of spin that is evidently being applied; the bare facts are that Paisleyism has compromised its once separatist position, and in the words of the Free Presbyterian chairman of the Assembly’s Education Committee, Mervyn Storey, they have become, ‘forward looking and inclusive’, how very ecumenical.
Rev Mervyn Cotton (Heb13:6)
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Well said Rev. Cotton . .
ReplyDeleteIn order to facilitate and implement the terrorist-inclusive power-sharing government of N.I., the former stand and principles held by Ian Paisley and the DUP had to be jettisoned in order to embrace the "politically correct" agenda and ecumenical mindset that permeated the peace process of the papal ambassadors, Sean Brady, Tony Blair, Bertie Ahern, George Mitchell, & Gerry Adams, with whom they came to terms and agreement.
As Ivan Foster has stated in his article entitled 'The Cry of the Merchants':
"It was most disconcerting to read of Dr Ian Paisley saying to an audience of businessmen in Ballymena that his legacy would be creating a stable Ulster upon which future generations could build economic prosperity (Belfast Newsletter, 21st April 2008).
That is not the legacy he formerly desired to leave to his fellow-Ulstermen and women. It would have been his desire to see a revival of gospel religion and the flourishing of the Kingdom of Christ in his native land.
In the same speech Dr Paisley identified “the enemy” in Ulster. He said he and his DUP colleagues had confronted the need for change and the enemies of Ulster were those who resist change. There was once a day when the enemies of Ulster were the murderers of the IRA. Now, the enemy is those who resist the changes that have come as a result of the DUP making peace with Sinn Fein/IRA."
Link: http://forgodandulster.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/the-cry-of-the-merchants____rev-ivan-foster/
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What saith the Lord:
"For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD." (Jer. 5:11)
"Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy:" (Micah 2:8a)
In Christian solidarity,
June / aka Ask Dr. Paisley