Paisleyism Puts Protestantism unto a New Cart 4

Paisleyism Puts Protestantism on a New Cart 4

The Carnival about the New Cart

‘And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.’ (2 Sam6:5)

The new administration in Israel under David was like Paisleyism, forward looking and inclusive; this New Cart was designed to have popular appeal and support. This new image or new initiative was presented in such a way, that everyone was invited to join in the parade; there was a carnival atmosphere developed so as to maximise cohesion, sharing and integration among the people. This was to be the greatest parade exhibiting moral rectitude of all time in Israel; the world, the flesh and the devil had all a vital role to play at the expense of God’s honour and testimony.

So too, there is a kind of carnival atmosphere being developed as the New Cart of Paisleyism is rolled out into the public arena; its wood is not covered with gold but with the veneer of political sleaze; the wheels are constructed from the every best hypocrisy known to fallen man; the shafts of the New Cart are of the best duplicity that public money can buy; it is being pulled along by a voiceless and misled electorate; and the two loyal sons of Ulster are in charge, Ahio Johnstone and Uzzah Robinson.

The New Cart in David’s day was the centre or the hub of worldly applause; there was a concerted effort made by all around the new cart to display a cohesive effort to accomplish orchestral finesse. Today, Paisleyism places Protestantism on their New Cart and exhibits it as a focal point for social cohesion; this reduces Biblical Protestantism to nothing more than mere entertainment value. It is an affront to evangelical Protestantism to be portrayed as popular entertainment which is applauded by the world.

As David’s new cart rolled along the road to Jerusalem, sharing was the conception as the waves of emotionalism rolled over the people. Now, as Ahio Johnstone and Uzzah Robinson drive the new cart of Paisleyism forward towards a shared future the waves of hyper emotionalism is overwhelming the Ulster people. After all the shouting about separation in the past; separation that pulled families, churches, political parties, communities and governments apart; all has now apparently changed, people are being encouraged by these two loyal sons of Ulster to share the same music sheet as the orchestra strikes up a march, entitled ‘Separation to Sharing’.

The carnival atmosphere surrounding the new card in David’s day exhibited an integrated society; the people were one, as they worshipped, as they walked and as they worked together. This is precisely what the new cart of Paisleyism is seeking to advance in Ulster. As they amerce our society deeper and deeper in equality legislation, these sons of Ulster are advancing the devil’s cause of multifaith and multicultural paganism.

Rev Mervyn Cotton (Heb13:6)