RIP to this phrase.
Members of the Orange Order have been told to stop using the phrase RIP when talking about death as they consider it to be un-Protestant.
An Orange Order magazine called the Orange standard made the statement as they felt the phrase was unbiblical and was too heavily connected to Catholicism.
Speaking on BBC Talkback, Wallace Thompson, a Secretary of Evangelical Protestant Society, said he would urge all Protestants not to use the phrase.
He admitted that it was a sensitive issue because it was surrounding the topic of grief and said a better understanding was needed among the Protestant faith.
“From a Protestant point of view, we believe when death comes, a person either goes to Christ for all eternity or into hell. That’s what we believe the Gospel to be.
“So from a Protestant point of view to use the term is not theological or correct,” he said.
The @OrangeOrder say using the phrase RIP is a Roman superstition – we debate with @wallyt53 @MartinJMagill & Ken Newell pic.twitter.com/sNtFSwjGlw
— BBC Talkback (@BBCTalkback) July 24, 2017
The term RIP means Requiescant in pace or Rest In Peace and is frequently used in the Catholic Church.
This was something which the magazine pointed out in their article and used it to explain that it was terminology that Protestants needed to drop.
The news comes after People at an Orange Order Halloween party were dressed as Hitler and a dead Pope in an investigation by the Sunday Herald.
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