Getting worked up about ‘RIP’ is itself an Orange indulgence | Giles Fraser

What makes the Orange Order’s theological complaint so pointless is that the majority of people who say ‘Rest in peace’ do not intend it as a prayer at allThe Orange Order recently reminded its members that RIP is not a suitable thing for good Protestants to say about the dead. “Rest in peace”, or requiescat in pace as it was in Latin, is a misguided bit of Roman Catholic dogma, they say, and superstitious nonsense to boot.Protestants don’t pray for the dead b