Original Posting: http://www.stevejanke.com/archives/178875.php
Watashi: Atheism isn’t a left-wing position. Those leftists who condemn the Prime Minister for saying ‘God Bless Canada’ aren’t doing it becuase they’re rational atheists, they’re doing it because they hate everything about the West and have an irrational xenophillia.
Christianity is a left-wing position. You can’t be a faithful Catholic and an ardent capitalist. Afterall, this is your church:
“She [the Roman Catholic Church] has likewise refused to accept, in the practice of “capitalism,” individualism and the absolute primacy of the law of the marketplace over human labor”
source: http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a7.htm
And as for the injunction against murder, theft, rape et al. originating in the bible - all I can say to that is, those Jews must have been one rotten, theiving, murderous, idolatrous, pork-loving rabble before they got the ten commandments. Your god should have dropped those ten commandments on their heads if they were truly that shi#@y (as they must have been without HIS laws set out for them).
Getting back to the original point about the PM saying God Bless Canada - we live in a Christian country. Our consitution says that the country is founded on the rule of law and the supremacy of God - not ‘a god’ but ‘God’ - proper noun i.e. some guy’s name and not a broad category that can include yahweh, vishnu, or allah. Saying the PM is violating ‘Canadian values (TM)’ is willfully ignorant.
Plus, where were all these so-called atheists of the left when the NDP was kicking out a candidate for practicing Wica? Where were they when the NDP demoted Svend Robinson for tabling a pro-atheist motion in parliament?
There’s only one party in parliament that punishes members for their religion or lack of it - coincidentally the only party that was founded by a Christian preacher.
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