Eleventh Night

Here in Northern Ireland, July 11 is bonfire night.  Tomorrow, the twelfth, is the commemoration of King William's victory over King James at the Battle of the Boyne.  My observation, as an Irish Protestant who as grown up outside of the politics of the last forty years, is that there is a great memory of tradition without a similar memory of the doctrine which led to the division between Catholic and Protestant.  Many Protestants would give their lives for the tradition without any real concept of the Gospel from which their tradition originated.  That is sad.

There is a willingness to fight - just no real concept of what is worth fighting for.