Re: Religious Freedom in Canada?

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 02:45:03 GMT, "DGDevin"
<dgdevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> did courageously avow:

>"Shane McCrae" <shanemccrae@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:i7HVe.482744$s54.29155@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
>> Hey,
>> As somebody who is a Canadian, married to an American, and has lived in
>> both the U.S. and Canada, I can tell you with complete certainty that,
>> while
>> Americans like to talk the talk about "freedoms" of all sorts, they have
>> far
>> less freedom there than we do here. This is especially true on the gun
>> front. While they have the freedom to carry guns, we have the freedom of
>> not
>> having to live among an armed population and worry about getting shot at
>> random. This is not to say there are no guns here, but there are far less
>> and the stats prove how much safer we are because of it. To me, that's
>> real
>> freedom, as opposed to the brainwashing many Americans have bought into.
>
>You would have more credibility if you were more informed, most Americans do
>not have the legal right to *carry* firearms, some of the most populous
>states have strict carry-permit laws and rarely issue such permits, although
>it's interesting that the states that do allow concealed carry by
>law-abiding citizens also have less crime. You might also want to look into
>the rate of the criminal use of firearms in Canada since the most recent
>spasm of anti-gun legislation, maybe you can explain why harsher laws have
>seen increased firearms crime.
>
>> On the topic of Religious Freedom, again, we win. The Christian Right
>> Wing has less clout than a wet noodle here, same with all the various
>> religious groups. Btw, I am in Alberta, the most Conservative province in
>> Canada. We don't fuss about a person's Religion here, we are extremely
>> multi-cultural and pursue a national policy of a cultural mosaic, as
>> opposed
>> to a melting pot.
>
>Meanwhile, next door in B.C., Christmas carols are banned from the public
>schools, at least the ones with any religious content at all, for fear of
>offending non-Christian immigrants. How about in Alberta, do kids still
>gather in the school gym to sing "Silent Night," or not? Is that part of
>the mosaic, the majority of the population supresses its own heritage?

I attended school in Alberta in the Separate School system in
Edmonton. It was priests and penguins all the way. That included
Catechism first subject every morning for the first two or three
years. Catholics schools in Alberta will always have religious
teaching.

>
>> While America gives lip service to higher ideals and brainwashes it's
>> citizens into a myopic world view, Canada quietly goes about the business
>> of
>> letting people live their own lives. We have more freedom here. I know,
>> I've
>> tried both ways. Sorry folks, it's true.
>> Cheers,
>> Shane
>
>There is plenty of brainwashing to go around, north and south of the border,
>you provide ample evidence of that.
>
Nah, we know a few of our Prime Ministers were drunks or just plain
weird. You don't get the hero worship drummed into you here like you
do in the U.S. And yet it was always claimed it was the Commies doing
the brainwashing. George Washington never told a lie, a bit hard to
swallow don't you think. Take the eagle. It is not so much a bird of
prey as it is a bird of opportunity in its natural environment and
would rather dine on rotting salmon than actually hunt anything. I
kind of like Ben Franklin's idea of having the wild turkey as the
national bird. That animal truly lives by its own wits as anyone who
has hunted it will know.

Ken Wilson
Proud Owner of Lord Valve, PMG, John Wheaton, Claude Lucas,
Freep the Xenophobe, Chuck, pseudobacker, and the rest of the
Union of Rightwing Idiots Needing Explanations (URINE)
and, at his own request, Karl Rovershank (aka Lars from Mars)
Supporting the Troops at http://www.resisters.ca http://www.criticalhistory.com/
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Religious Freedom in Canada?
    ... > both the U.S. and Canada, I can tell you with complete certainty that, ... > less freedom there than we do here. ... as opposed to the brainwashing many Americans have bought into. ... We don't fuss about a person's Religion here, ...
    (alt.guitar.amps)
  • Re: European cities are safest in the world
    ... same as Canada. ... Freedom is a tradition that Americans hold dear but is ...
    (rec.travel.europe)
  • Re: Score one for the good guys!
    ... Bush was President of Canada. ... freedom of self-serving propaganda that's the problem. ... Canadians are just as stupid as Americans. ... children believed that George Bush was President of Canada". ...
    (soc.culture.scottish)
  • Re: European cities are safest in the world
    ... Freedom is a tradition that Americans hold dear but is ... crappy it was and that they aren't going back even as tourists. ... They should have picked Canada where all they could complain about was ...
    (rec.travel.europe)
  • Re: Towards a resolution . . .
    ... Americans have that freedom. ... a public school has the right to discriminate over ... and I really don't care what their religion is or isn't. ...
    (rec.scouting.issues)
Loading