BOTH NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN IRELAND

PRETEND TO BE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES.

BUT NEITHER HELPS DEMONSTRATE THE

LOVE OF JESUS TO THE REST OF US.

Brexit and the border between the Northern and Southern parts of the island of Ireland are a problem only because two so-called Christian countries have decided it is totally impossible to treat their neighbours with Christian love.

What an appalling lesson in bigotry and false benevolence this reveals to everybody, and most damagingly to children everywhere struggling to make sense of and understand this new life they have only a few years earlier been born into.

If the Irish were truly Christian enough to live together as one national Irish country, then that Irish Nation could decide for itself whether it wanted to be part of the European Union or part of the United Kingdom, and the current border problem and all "the troubles" could be allowed to disappear together.

All the rights and wrongs of political and economic life on the island of Ireland appear to depend on the minor religious differences between the Church of Rome and the Church of England and the other Protestant Christian beliefs.

But the demonstrated actuality of differences between North and South reveals that those minor differences in Christian beliefs are only an apparency, and that it is the often selfish nature of many individuals that merely uses vague religious considerations as an excuse to parade and uphold their political, social, economic and personal preferences at any price and at every opportunity.

(We have similar usage of a devastating set of minor religious interpretations creating death and destruction in the Middle East, were Sunni Muslims hate and kill Shiite Muslims and vice versa, to gain political, social and economic precedence over the other.)

I am not absolutely certain if they have a different Ten Commandments in Belfast to the Ten they have in Dublin, but am rather sure they don't.

So what degree or level of hypocrisy are both sides practising for their own personal or their own community's ends ?

If both sorts of Christian Confessional and their practice of "penitence" actually worked, this situation would already have been resolved.

But if I am wrong, then the best way for both sides to prove me wrong is for them to get together as one Nation on their own island of Ireland.

The Country of Ireland - populated by all those lovely Irish People - Together !

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WITH GOD'S SUPPORT, We Wish Them ALL THE LUCK POSSIBLE

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