Posted Mar 24, 2025, 2:28 PM
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Gros Méchant Loup
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Province 2, Canadian Empire
Posts: 72,949
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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
I would agree with that.
Christianity is viewed with some suspicion and contempt by mainstream and progressive Canadians (with some reason given a checkered history), but, Christianity is also responsible for beautiful institutions with spectacular architecture, the preservation of literature and education and support for the traditional arts. It is not all bad.
The bad taste some progressives have for Christianity is based mostly on the association of the religious right (fundamentalist Baptists and evangelical Catholics) with certain anti-socially progressive views that would make Jesus blush.
If only the fundamentalists would tone down their actions and rhetoric.......
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Even our prominent Christian politicians tend to be cautious about exposing their faith in Canada. (Both Carney and Trudeau are Catholic and go to church at least occasionally.)
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