So, its the 11th night in Belfast

Duncan Disorderly · July 11, 2007

Whether or not King Billy was a transvestite who rode into battle on his least favoured horse, for fear that his preferred steed would get hurt, and that most of his soldiers were Irish, which King James despised, do any of the revellers tonight realise that King Billy`s war was fought with the financial support of the papacy in Rome?

Rome had been in a continual battle for supremacy against Celtic Catholicism, which espoused a decentralised notion of a personal God.

This reared; in their view; it`s ugly head again in the guise of King James VI of Scotland, who claimed the rightful succession to the throne of England and who, after gaining power, would sever all links with Rome and establish a separate Catholic church on the periphery of Europe which could, potentially, wield far more power than Rome was willing to cede.

So, in Rome`s view, it was far more preferable to have a Protestant monarch in an influential position, than it was to have a rival Catholic establishment.

There is also the fact that early Orange institutions gathered alms from among it`s members to finance the building of Catholic churches and that interdenominational marriages were common.

The first real nationalist revolutionaries were Presbyterians such as Wolfe Tone, and the United Irishmen of the late 1700`s were Protestant businessmen.

So why don`t we all accept their plea for an all-inclusive, cross-community event, while they burn the Irish tricolour on top of their bonfires.

Not that I give a shyte, all flags and nations are anathema to me, but; for the love of all the gods; get your perspective right!

All this applies to the pricks who think its a good laugh to burn down Orange halls too!

Edited July 11, 2007 by Duncan Disorderly

ploveroil · July 11, 2007