Bad enough what Sinn Féin/IRA were trying to do; it was Éamon de Valera that sold the Republic of Ireland out to the European Union in 1972.
Posted on 09/12/2014 6:15:51 AM PDT by marshmallow
The Rev Ian Paisley, Protestant firebrand and former leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, has died at the age of 88.
The Rev Paisley served as First Minister of Northern Ireland for a year when power was first devolved in 2007.
His deputy, Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin, expressed sadness at the news of his death.
“Over a number of decades we were political opponents and held very different views on many, many issues but the one thing we were absolutely united on was the principle that our people were better able to govern themselves than any British government,” he said.
“I want to pay tribute to and comment on the work he did in the latter days of his political life in building agreement and leading unionism into a new accommodation with republicans and nationalists.
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I am sure he now fully understands the folly of making war on your fellow Christians.
RIP.
He fought the good fight according to the gifts God gave him.
Things have sure changed in NI.
This is a big story
Sinn Fein are not Christians
“I am sure he now fully understands the folly of making war on your fellow Christians.”
And I believe he heard something like “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.” He mightily employed his gifts in defense of the true gospel of Christ. He boldly sounded the alarm without compromise, stutter, or stammer. I didn’t always agree with him, but I admired him. We need more with the absolute moral clarity of Dr. Ian Paisley.
Here’s a classic from Dr. Paisley for anyone who never heard him preach.
“Why I Am a Protestant”
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=6847
And in light of his death:
“The First Five Minutes After Death”
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=2903141720
When he started in politics, his party was very small, but Paisley built it into the most powerful Protestant Unionist party and the governing party of Northern Ireland, alongside the Catholic Irish Nationalist Leftists of Sinn Fein, whose leaders always called themselves “Progressives”.
Paisley himself described his party as unionist (for union with Britain) but otherwise left of center. Paisley’s party always promoted subsidies for business, public housing and so on.
Does anyone know the whereabouts of FR's resident FRoman Catholics at the time of his death?
Some interesting comments here.
Correct. They are hardcore socialists.
It was ALWAYS about money, land and power. Nothing new there.
Twit.
I lived in the UK in the 1980s and I remember him always stirring things up.
The IRA would never “stir things up”?
Have you ever spent even ten minutes trying to understand why Ian Paisley and other historic Protestants might believe that?
“The Papacy Is The Antichrist: A Demonstration (1888)
By Rev. J. A. WYLIE, LL.D.
AUTHOR OF “HISTORY OF PROTESTANTISM,” “HISTORY
OF THE SCOTISH NATION,” ETC.”
http://www.historicism.net/readingmaterials/thepapacy.pdf
‘we ourselves’
IIRC, Lybia were sending the IRA plastic explosives.
Bit anti-climatic for the anti-christ, I think.
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