Monday, April 18, 2022

The Acceptable Prejudice

The antipathy towards Catholicism has finally paid off:

Many Canadians now believe Catholicism, evangelical Christianity and Islam are more damaging to society than beneficial, a new survey shows, as people across the country continue to turn their backs on religion.

A new Angus Reid survey, released Monday, has shone a light on perceptions of certain religions in post-pandemic Canada, at a time when religiosity in the country is already at an all-time low.

“Broader society still is not fully comfortable and fully clear about what to do with religion, and therefore they show some signs of discomfort,” Abdie Kazemipur, a University of Calgary sociologist and the chair in ethnic studies, explains.

“It’s not intolerance at the moment, it is discomfort.”

 

No, it's intolerance, and it is no coincidence that this came out on Easter Monday.


I have yet to see Canadians en masse look after the poor with their humanist values and - above all - their own cash.

Fill that sectarian void, guys.

Be like China and North Korea and ban religion, Canada. Have the fortitude to be really violent about it, too.

Burning churches just isn't going to cut it anymore. Get rough!

Show history how martyrs are made and that Canada was the one to make them.

Nothing makes Canada look like a land of tolerance and freely-exchanged ideas like hating people they don't know.


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