The Curious Spirit and Protestantism. The Troubles (8.5.2014)

The curious, questioning, doubting spirit lies at the source of every Evangelical energy. The Honest Ulsterman is, in effect, a product of this spirit.

The biblical curiosity and evangelical antipathy of Luther to the Church in the 1530s led to his rejection of the practice of the selling of indulgences to raise money for German Cathedrals. The refusal of the princes to pay the extortionate claims lay at the root of the heavy indebtedness of the German churches and states.

A matter of comparative interest

In our times, the bland  dishonesty and scheming of the southern military has cast the northern Protestants in a good light. The southern military were deeply involved in the preparation of acts of violence in the north during the recent insurgency against authority – itself a usurped authority – and the insurgency has given rise to a ruling cocaine-fuelled rich set in the south. The South is saved only by the trade unions. ( Some of the trade unions are selfishly pushing the (German) aim of a high-wage high-tax, high-price society in a way which confronts democratic authority).

The recent uprising against discrimination, violence and state terror in the north, it should be noted, was largely the work of Irish military intelligence, German military intelligence and US military intelligence. 

For their part MI6 agents armed the loyalists and subsidised them through sales of drugs. 

Many Provos were 'tripping' on LSD or had been smoking hashish before their 'revolutionary' endeavours. Drugs are always prevalent in warfare on both sides and hashish in particular is dispensed,an old Arab doctors’ trick to make their soldiers fight and murder.