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Beware false prophets and by their actions shall they be judged.

[raydan]

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Oh the glorious memes.

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[Thanos]

Meanwhile all the followers are saying to themselves that they have to forgive him because the work he does is "just too important". Same excuse they make for Trump. Same damn excuse they make each and every time one of their slimy leaders gets popped doing something sinful or outright illegal.

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Thanos Thanos:

Meanwhile all the followers are saying to themselves that they have to forgive him because he "pwns the libtards". Same excuse they make for Trump. Same damn excuse they make each and every time one of their slimy leaders gets popped doing something sinful or outright illegal.

FTFY

[herbie]

My respect for Evangelicals is at an all time low.
Previously didn't give a shit what colour your skin is, what hole you like to fuck or what Book Of Bullshit you choose to believe.
But people who profess their holiness by spouting scripture non-stop and then break every basic tenet of their faith on a daily basis, fuck them!

[DrCaleb]

herbie herbie:

My respect for Evangelicals is at an all time low.

To save time, I never had any.

[llama66]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

herbie herbie:

My respect for Evangelicals is at an all time low.

To save time, I never had any.

Ditto. To me they are no better than snake oil salesmen.

[DrCaleb]

I think that is one of the few Canadian cultural traits. The more someone professes something, the less likely we think it's true.

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[JaredMilne]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

I think that is one of the few Canadian cultural traits. The more someone professes something, the less likely we think it's true.

Religious faith as an important political trait has also largely faded here compared to the United States. The 19th and early 20th centuries had lots of ugly Protestant attempts to oppress Catholicism, while provincial premiers like Alberta's Bill Aberhart and Quebec's Maurice Duplessis were either devoutly religious or very closely tied with the church.

Now though, you have Prime Ministers like Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chretien who were devout Catholics but decriminalized homosexuality and allowed gay marriage, Preston Manning writing that true Christianity doesn't force its solutions on anyone who doesn't want them, Stephen Harper keeping a firm lid on contentious faith-based issues like abortion and Ralph Klein refusing to use the notwithstanding clause when the Supreme Court ordered Alberta to include gay rights in our provincial human rights code.

And most Canadian voters don't seem to care about their politicians' religious faiths, either. Harper's and Klein's actions never hurt them at the ballot box, and while MPs like my own John Williams occasionally mentioned going to Mass, we voted for him not because he was a churchgoer but because he was a very smart, hardworking guy.

[BeaverFever]

JaredMilne JaredMilne:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

I think that is one of the few Canadian cultural traits. The more someone professes something, the less likely we think it's true.

Religious faith as an important political trait has also largely faded here compared to the United States. The 19th and early 20th centuries had lots of ugly Protestant attempts to oppress Catholicism, while provincial premiers like Alberta's Bill Aberhart and Quebec's Maurice Duplessis were either devoutly religious or very closely tied with the church.

Now though, you have Prime Ministers like Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chretien who were devout Catholics but decriminalized homosexuality and allowed gay marriage, Preston Manning writing that true Christianity doesn't force its solutions on anyone who doesn't want them, Stephen Harper keeping a firm lid on contentious faith-based issues like abortion and Ralph Klein refusing to use the notwithstanding clause when the Supreme Court ordered Alberta to include gay rights in our provincial human rights code.

And most Canadian voters don't seem to care about their politicians' religious faiths, either. Harper's and Klein's actions never hurt them at the ballot box, and while MPs like my own John Williams occasionally mentioned going to Mass, we voted for him not because he was a churchgoer but because he was a very smart, hardworking guy.

Correction: Klein did invoke the notwithstanding clause to ban same sex marriage but it was struck down by the SCOC because the definition of marriage is not provincial jurisdiction

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[JaredMilne]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

Correction: Klein did invoke the notwithstanding clause to ban same sex marriage but it was struck down by the SCOC because the definition of marriage is not provincial jurisdiction

Correction: Ralph Klein did not use the notwithstanding clause when the SCOC issued its ruling in the Vriend case:

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A notable example was the campaign to persuade former Alberta premier Ralph Klein to wield the notwithstanding clause to keep sexual orientation out of the Alberta Individual Rights Protection Act.

Klein resisted, saying that it was pretty hard to argue with the reasoning of the Supreme Court in the Delwin Vriend case. Vriend was a teacher who was fired from a Christian college in Edmonton in 1991 because he was gay; the Supreme Court later ruled that his Charter rights had been violated.

I never said anything about Klein and gay marriage in my post. I only mentioned it in the context of what Trudeau Senior and Chretien did in regards to gay rights.