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John Kyle presents a Northern protestant perspective on the Easter Rising

The republican Robert Ballagh and loyalist politician John Kyle featured on a BBC Radio Ulster broadcast on the Easter Rising and were asked if 'Religion had any role in the Rising, or was it purely a political struggle?' Robert Ballagh responded: "Well I would see the Rising as a political event. I think you have to factor in religion because in this part of the country 80% of the population were Roman Catholic, so just by sheer proportion the majority of those who took part would have been Roman Catholic. But I don't think they were driven by Roman Catholic ideology or doctrine. I think they were driven by a desire to see a better Ireland, an Ireland where justice and equality would be keystones to the new society, the new Republic was proclaimed on April 24 in Dublin in 1916. The blood sacrifice I think is to a large extent a red herring. I don't believe these people were seeking martyrdom. After all, if you're seeking martyrdom, you don't spend years and months planning a military strategy to lose* a revolution, because they did go out to win. As we know circumstanced prevailed against them and probably by Easter Sunday they knew that this was doomed to failure and they had to make a choice. And those who decided to go out on Easter Monday made the choice probably for practical reasons, in that by that stage any way the British authorities had discovered that something was up and they would have all been arrested and probably tried for treason and perhaps executed any way. So I think that they made a calculated decision to mount the Rising on Easter Monday. I don't think they were in the business of martyrdom or self-sacrifice." Susan McKay said that the Proclamation as a "wonderful document" but that Catholicism reasserted itself. John Kyle of the PUP was asked "did you see the Rising as a Catholic Rising or not?" He responded: "Well I think from the perspective of the Northern protestant it was very definitely a Catholic Rising with strong religious implications and a real religious tone about in. Both in the Ulster Solemn League and Covenant and in the Proclamation it makes reference to religious and civil freedoms, and for the Ulster Covenant it spoke about "disastrous for material well-being, for civil and religious freedom and destructive of our citizenship." The whole element of religious freedom was a massive issue for the northern protestant who viewed the Catholic Church as an apostate church, according to the Westminster Confession of faith the Pope as antichrist, and so the position of the Catholic Church and the protestant religion were miles apart, compared to the relationships that we have today it was like night and day in those days. The northern Protestant had great fear of the Catholic Church and saw the nascent Irish Republic as a confessional state which of course their fears in a sense were proved true with Article. 44 and the special place given to the Catholic Church within the new state." Listen in full on AudioBoom here: Dr John Kyle of the Easter Rising 1916 brianjohnspencer https://audioboom.com/boos/4502812

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The President and the Gospel

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John Kyle, Cameron Townsend and Wycliffe

During his 50 years as director-mentor of SIL members around the world, Townsend traveled a great deal. Here we see him enjoying a visit with members of a minority group of Papua New Guinea (1969) http://www-01.sil.org/WCT/wct_bio8.html

Recently the Lord re-connected me with John Kyle, the former coordinator for Mission to the World (MTW). John also…

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Uhura finished tracking down all the Communications and Transporter personnel. It had not been an easy task. Lieutenant Palmer, now seated beside her at the board with her blonde hair hanging damply down the middle of her back, had been under a hair dryer. Lieutenant Kyle had been with a woman, and he expressed his unhappiness in a set of curses that fascinated both Spock and Uhura and shocked those on the bridge for whom English was a native language.

Uh, just in what state was Kyle brought back in then?!

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Music by Ryan York and a musical spectrum analysis (by Jon-Kyle)