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Great William!
Heard that on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Ulster this evening
Just commenting to test the time as your time 08:19pm appears correct!

. . . but look at your comment's time allybally ...

and yours!!

Exactly ... there's a problem ...

PTL
I couldn't see my time untill after I posted!
The fault has been noted days ago!

Hi all

We are trying to sort the comment time problem, honest! I'm hopeful there'll be a solution by the end of Tuesday.

Aaron Scullion (´óÏó´«Ã½)

´óÏó´«Ã½, I wouldn't worry about being only an hour or so out. According to this report, Paisley's out by a lot more than that.

Pete

When you realise that the YEC's are out by 5bn yrs I suppose an hour is neither here nor there!

On the *real* good friday there was no agreement just God's eternal decree!

David Agnew

allybalder

So the earth is 5,000,006,000 years old?

That's sort of exact, don't you think!

pete
what's your estimate?

David - M9
Sorry - don't understand you comment.

allybalder

My estimate?

Well, given that there’s a good theological case to suggest that day 7 lasted the whole way through to the resurrection, I’m not putting my money on 6 days.

Simply that the "good friday agreement" was supposed to be an agreement about peace.

On the real good friday God made real his plan for making peace between himself and his people.No agreement needed.

I would object to the name 'Good Friday Agreement'

Belfast Agreement is the proper name and it was just a coincidence that it was settled on the Passover and gods were not involved!

Oh, oh, oh, oh, Mister Paisley, Mister Paisley sir, could you please please, please sign my autograph book? It would mean so ever so much to me and my wife and children. W'eve been fans of yours ever since my wife and I were children ourselves. That's right, just sign on that line right THERE!. And thanks ever so much Mister Paisley, we will remember you for the rest of our lives for this.

(.... What a maroon! :-)

He's DR Paisley.

jovialPTL

He may be DR Paisley to you but to those of us who know him well he likes to be called just plain ole "Paise" :)

JoviaPTL

Paisley's use of the title 'Dr' derived initially from a 1954 qualification from the (outlawed ) American Pioneer Theological Seminary in Rockville, Illinois. Later this was somewhat legitimised by an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree awarded by Bob Jones University, a fundamentalist Christian but unaccredited college in Greenville, South Carolina.

its a bit of an insult to anyone with a "proper" Phd to insist on calling this man a DR

JovialPTL,

Mr Paisley is not "Dr" Paisley, indeed it is very insulting to those who went to genuine universities to earn genuine qualifications to call him so.

Re.

Mr./Dr. Paisley.

Maybe the Dr. bit refers to him being a Timelord. After all he was living in the past for long enough and then all of a sudden shot into the future.

BTW the full title he gives himself is................. wait for it................

The Rev Dr Ian RK Paisley, MP, MEP, Moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, Minister of Martyrs' Memorial Free Presbyterian Church, Leader of the Ulster Democratic Unionist Party, MP for North Antrim at Westminster and MEP for Northern Ireland in Strasbourg.

Although it probably needs updated a bit.

It would also be difficult to fit on a envelop.

Goodness Peter-that's a bit of a mouthful!:-)

Poor old PTL. He doesn't seem to have a lot of luck attributing Ph.Ds to people. First it was Robin Greer and now it's Ian Paisley

Actually Petermorrow, you are very OUT of date ... The First Minister's title is ...

The Rev. and Rt Hon. Dr Ian R K Paisley, PC, MP, MLA, DD.

Dr Paisley's DD is from Bob Jones University. It is honourary but BJU is now an accredited university in the US. So Dr Paisley is just as entitled to be called Dr as any Queen's University honorary graduate or Presbyterian Moderator.

We've been here before!!


Recipients of an honorary doctorate do not normally adopt the title of "doctor". In many countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, it is not usual for an honorary doctor to use the formal title of "doctor", regardless of the background circumstances for the award.

The servants just call him "Mr. P."

PTL

"Actually Petermorrow, you are very OUT of date ... The First Minister's title is ... "

As I suggested I thought I was. However I got my information here:

PTL

The real problem with christian leaders flaunting titles and letters, real or imagined, is that it stands in sharp contrast to the one they seek to follow. Jesus, who did not seek equality with God but took on the nature of a servant.

I am not anti-intellectual or anti-knowledge but sometimes you get the impression that Dr. this and Prof. that have got more to do with ego than anything else.

I don't particularly want to throw an accusation like "Everything they do is done for men to see", (like signing a copy of the Belfast Agreement 10 years late) but sometimes I wonder.

pete
despite my comment 25 where I pointed out most hon Dr.'s do not use the title
It WAS for charity!

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PTL

Bob Jones "university" is a joke and a glorified degree mill. It was also a racist/segregationist dump-views which were based on the Bible-believing opinions of it's founder. Do you not think that Mr Paisley could have done the decent thing and told Mr Jones where to shove his honorary "doctorate"? I mean Mr Paisley preaches to us about the evil of...line dancing! but being best buddies with a vile racist lowlife like Bob Jones..well that's ok!? "Beware of hypocrites and false prophets" PTL!

allybalder

"It WAS for charity!"

Indeed.

That would make a good caption on the photo on the linked newspage.

I'm looking forward to Sean Crummy's new series. I'd love to see how he portays Brian Cowan (I'll bet he'll have something in of him singing !).

As for Paisley's docterate wasn't it Brian Faulkner who once referred to him the "demon doctor" ?

Still, I think "the big man" has mellowed over the years and the nature of his relationship with Mr McGuinness was something that no-one anticipated. It'll be interesting to see how Robinson handles the job.