Latimeritis Strikes Again

Rev David Latimer, a Presbyterian Minister from Londonderry who has formed a friendship with Martin McGuinness, attended McGuinness' meeting with the Queen.

The clergyman said the royal handshake was historic.adding that Martin McGuinness is a peacemaker.

He added that McGuinness is wanting to shape things so that both communities will be able to move closer together, to become friendly allies and never again need to think of becoming warring adversaries.


But words are very cheap, especially when they come from an easily and willingly deceived Presbyterian minister.  This is the peacemaker who has never once condemned the terrorism that his organisatiuon, the IRA, perpetrated, and still perpetrates through its contemporary clones, the falsely so-called dissident republicans.  His terrorism was acceptable because it was needed to create the circumstances in which he and his would have positions of state in the country they are trying to destroy; and these are stepping stones to their ultimate goal of a re-united Ireland that is independent of the UK.

The media made so much of this handshake, as did those who were promoting it.  Clearly this was for purely political ends, something Rev. Latimer denies.

He said he knows him for the past six years period and that if McGuinness is doing something, he’s "doing it because he believes in it. And I trust that man totally, because we built up that kind of relationship.”

During the past six years, how persistent has Mr Latimer been in pressing on McGuinness the demands of the Gospel?  Has he called him to repentance?  Has he urged him to trust in Christ ALONE for salvation?  What place has the Gospel of Christ, Who is the world's only Saviour, played in these interactions?

The 'former' IRA commander has never repented of his involvement in violent republican terrorism so as an unrepentant terrorist who shares the same outlook as Rev Latimer, a strange cocktail has been created.





What it is that McGuinness believes in?  Well, his Roman Catholicism is set squarely against the Reformed Faith and the reformed churches.  His devotion to the cult of Mary is well known therefore his love for the Gospel does not exist.  How can it?  Can two walk together unless they are agreed? 


If David Latimer is now walking comfortably with McGuinness, one of them has changed, and it's not Martin McGuinness.  He is true to his religious faith and Rome never changes.


There can be no doubt that what is happening in Northern Ireland is real; but is it good?  Does it honour God and His Son, Jesus Christ?  Will it help promote the Gospel throughout Ireland and the world?

When Hitler organised the German people into a united front, something was happening, but was it good?  When Saddam Hussien was elected unanimously as President of Iraq, something was happening, but was it good?  Just because something is happening is not the important thing, but it is that is happening and why?


Surely, if a thing is morally wrong it cannot be politically or ecclesiastically right! 

Mr Latimer ought to know that "money can make anything moral."  Money can make the never do-able, do-able!  Something gigantic has beennoffered to the IRA otherwise they would not do what they are doing today.  What further treachery has been committed behind closed doors where no one can see what's going on? 

This is yet another episode of infective Latimeritis; interestingly I have not heard one word of criticism from his church or from any of his colleagues!  They, by their silence, are complicit in his gimmickry.

This high level gimmickry will gain the applause of the undiscerning, but those of us who can see what's happening a bit more clearly can see something very different.  And what we see is not good!