Rest in peace on a BBC Radio Ulster programme that he would encourage Protestants to refrain from using the term "RIP". Thompson said that he regards "RIP" as a prayer for the dead, which he believes contradicts biblical doctrine. In the same radio programme, Presbyterian Ken Newell disagreed that people are praying for the dead when they use the phrase. Phrases in other languages: Rest in peace The phrase "Rest in peace", RIP, from Latin Requiescat in pace (, )) is sometimes used in traditional Christian services and prayers, such as in the Anglican, Lutheran, Methodist, and Roman Catholic denominations, sometimes to wish
Reap the whirlwind (phrase) Reap the whirlwind (phrase) Reap the whirlwind is a term derived from the proverbial phrase, "They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind", which in turn comes from the "Book of Hosea" in the "Old Testament" ("Hosea" 8-7). Its idiomatic meaning is to suffer the consequences of one's actions. The phrase was famously used by Arthur "Bomber" Harris in response to the Blitz of 1940 when he said: The phrase was also used by Norman Tebbit in a 1985 lecture when he condemned the permissive society, saying: After the U.S. Senate passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act allowing the expansion of