May I please recycle my favorite Ian Paisley quote? Around 1978 the British
Prime Minister, a genial and easy-going fellow named Jim Callaghan
(variously nicknamed “Sunny Jim” and “Gentleman Jim”–you get the picture)
held one of those knocking-heads-together series of meetings with Ulster
leaders that British Prime Ministers have to arrange every so often. At his
meeting with Paisley, the P.M. had to undure a long rant about the
wickedness of Catholics. Gentleman Jim put up with this for a while, then
remarked in his most soothing manner: “Come, come, Mr. Paisley. Are we not
all the children of God?” Paisley: “No, Sir! We are the children of
WRATH!”






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