We are at war. We have always been in a spiritual war, but now we are in a physical war. We have martyrs: what our orthodox friends would call neo-martyrs, those killed for the faith, but the Turk our foolish leaders have let in.

Knife-wielding attackers interrupted a church service in France, forced the priest to his knees and slit his throat on Tuesday, an attack that President Francois Hollande said showed the threat from Islamist militancy was greater than ever.

Police shot and killed the attackers as they emerged from the church, freeing three hostages, one of whom was seriously wounded.

The knifemen arrived during morning mass in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, near Rouen, northwest of Paris, where the 85-year-old parish priest Father Jacques Hamel was leading prayers.

“They forced him to his knees and he tried to defend himself and that’s when the drama began,” Sister Danielle, who escaped as the attackers slayed the priest, told RMC radio.

“They filmed themselves. It was like a sermon in Arabic around the altar,” the nun said.

I am not calm. I’m furious. I want the Orangemen and the republicans, Catholic and Protestant both, to bus to the Muslim ghettos and march through them with pipe, drum and bayonet. I want drumhead communion. I want bacon grilled on the streets.

I can dream, and probably my dreams are unwise. But they are dreams. The EU elite would never let Paisley near France, for he is considered a hate preacher.

But we need, at this time, Paisleys. Because the immoderate men are the sheepdogs that defend us from the wolves.

To the Islamists I have this message: you will not win. For Christ will return, and you are heading to the pit. Go to a church, unarmed, repentant, and be shriven. Christ will call his own, and loves the Peoples of Arabia and Persia and Egypt as much as he does those of the West.

But I have to remind you of this: Arabia and Egypt and Persia were once Christian. Your forefathers drove them out.

And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many. When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!”

(Matthew 27:51-54 ESV)

So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes, and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”

(Acts 1:6-11 ESV)

A fair number of people will mutter here. Chris is reformed; why is he defending the Papists? They killed us, in job lots, during the religious wars we had — from the reformation to the troubles in Ireland. That is true.

It is also true that I think the theology of Thomistic Catholicism has errors, and the post Vatican II Catholic church has greater errors. There are good intellectual and theological reasons for the reformation, and the reformed formulation of the faith is consonant with scripture.

But this is not a time for a neat theological discussion. It might have been fun to shout the good Father Hamel some vin ordinaire (or the good stuff) and have a theological discussion, but he is now a martyr. That will have to wait until Christ comes and we are all corrected.

At present we are having Martyrs made in France. The immigrant Muslims are poisoning the wells in the nations that let them in, and are now complaining they cannot drink.

They will be defeated. The church will arise. May they turn to Christ first: the alternative for them is the same pit the converged will be in, suffering with their master Beelzebub.