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- Title: Intolerance, Canadian Style
- Author : Donald DeMarco
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 47 KB
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The late Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, founder and editor of the highly influential magazine, First Things, was Canadian-born. After returning to the Ottawa Valley in 2007 for his annual summer vacation, he made the following observation: "It is true to say that, in most aspects of public life [in Canada], Christianity has been not only disestablished but also banished." He told the National Post that the erosion of the Christian foundation of Canadian society is linked to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms imposed by former Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau. The Charter, according to Fr. Neuhaus, "is riddled through and through with the radically individual notion of the unencumbered self and equality enforced by state power." For those who seek an unencumbered life, what could be more encumbering than Christianity, a religion that requires its adherents to pick up their cross on a daily basis? The notion of an unencumbered life is, of course, utopian, and therefore extremely unrealistic. But this lack of realism has not discouraged Canada's Human Rights Commissions (HRCs) from making a concerted effort to bring about this utopia in which everyone is equal and no one hates or even offends anyone else.
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