Understanding Harper's Evangelical Mission
Signs mount that Canada's government is beholden to a religious agenda averse to science and rational debate.
By
Andrew Nikiforuk, 26 Mar 2012, TheTyee.ca
Any Canadian listening to the news these days might well conclude that the Republican extremists or some associated evangelical group has occupied Ottawa.
And they'd be righter than Job, I believe.
Almost daily, more evidence surfaces that Canada's government is guided by tribalists averse to scientific reason in favour of Biblical fundamentalism -- or what some call "evangelical religious skepticism."
First came Canada's pull-out of the Kyoto agreement without any rational or achievable national plan to battle carbon pollution.
Next came the hysterical and unprecedented letter by Natural Resource Minister Joe Oliver, an investment banker. It branded local environmentalists and First Nations as foreign radicals because they dared to question the economic and environmental impacts of a Chinese-funded pipeline.
At the same time federal security types declared Greenpeace, a civil organization originally started by Canadian journalists, to be a "
multi-issue extremist group."
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Current events have significance for hard-line fundamentalist authorities, who see international conflict as part of the "Great Tribulation", described by Swaggart as “… trouble, war, and heartache that has now lasted for some 2,000 years.” Such literalist Evangelical authorities, including the C&MA, also pinpoint global warming and extreme weather events as an indication that the "end times" are imminent (and attempting to mitigate climate change as even against God’s will).
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