Okay, I have a column to write and then back to work, for sure. But this came up and someone finally just had to be the one to say it.
I’m from New Zealand, but let me paint you a picture:
Arriving in small town U.S, Canada, an atheist couple enroll their daughter in the local school. She refuses to participate in class prayer, the school recognises her right and every morning she waits in the corridor as the class finish their unconstitutional observance.
Here is my question News, is the girl brave or cowardly for not recognising Christ?
I have read enough about the treatment of minority atheists in the US particularly, to know perfectly well who the braver of these two groups is, you should too.
Sir: One surely believes you are from New Zealand, as you do not know much about Canada (different pole; check latitude).
I would be interested to hear of any situation of the sort you describe that literally happened in Canada in the last decade or so.
A more serious problem in Canada today is government-paid workers’ accommodation of beliefs that degrade girls and centre out girls who are menstruating and fail to protect girls’ lives or health (all in the name of cultural diversity and other “secular saint” enterprises).
Is that okay with you? How do you feel about it? No really, do write back and tell us. We’d love to hear.
Okay, that stuff may not be the “real Islam.”
I don’t know. I don’t care. I also do not care about the “real Islam.” No, really, absolutely, honestly.
Get me right on this: I don’t care.
I have lived all my life in a country where this garbage was unheard of in the 1960s. Most of it would not be heard of in the 1860s or the 1760s, never mind today!
Put another way: In 1960, when Canada was considered fairly religious (Christian, Jewish), a woman would be hanged for murdering all her daughters for being insufficiently religious—and not a soul would pity her (except maybe a saintly Christian religious in a convent somewhere, who might get special permission to see her the night before her execution).
But a couple of years ago, women journalists trembled lest the judge be tempted to offer some accommodation of the murderesses’ religious sensibilities (multiculti, diversity, globalism, differing interpretations of women’s rights, yada yada yatter, etc).
Thankfully, it didn’t happen. (She was sentenced to life in prison.)
So look, even today, not everyone in North America is a coward, an idiot, or a fantasist about this kind of problem. Some of us are actually traditional Canadians (oh heck, look it up if you care).
Survivor guide: First, cut the “cocktail napkin” new atheists out of the discussion. Their yatter helps American universities stay afloat on the serf-debts of artsie students who spend their later lives as low-wage baristas. And that is all they are good for. New atheists merit no more attention in principle than an interesting serviette design if they pretend that “religion” in general is the issue and not explicit beliefs.
Okay, I have a column to write and then back to work, for sure. But this came up and someone finally just had to be the one to say it.
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