“When I show that cartoon to my students, they’re amazed at such open anti-Catholic bigotry. Later they can’t believe that people might have voted against Al Smith in 1928 simply because he was a Catholic or even JFK in 1960. Little did I think that we would see such religious bigotry again in newspapers
in 2007.”
albatros, your reasoning is altogether faulty and skips a few beats.
PMSH may be an evagelical Christian–not, BTW, an “evangelist”. (It’s a good idea to get the terms correct.) However, perhaps you should quote what the PM, himself, says about his being a Christian, instead of quoting what David Mainse says. Maybe the PM disagrees with Mr. Mainse.
The war in the ME? I’m not an evangelical, Charles Krauthammer and David Frum aren’t and, after decades of terror attacks on the West by Islamic extremists, WE support the war in the ME AND Israel’s UN mandated right to exist. THIS is Zionism?
So, stop the magic thinking and the name calling. Smarten up too.
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Albatros, name one infallible prophecy. You throw out generalities like their true. Name one. Of course, you’d have to read and understand the Bible first. I have my doubts as to whether you’ve done that.
“Finally, as Richard Ball pointed out early on, “separation of Church and State” is an American political construct, not a Canadian one.”
It’s neither. The vaunted “wall of seperation between church and state” comes from a line in a letter by Thomas Jefferson, not from the federal constitution that Jefferson was an opponent rather than an architect of.
Not one person in a thousand seems to recognize that the principal original purpose of the First Amendment’s religion clauses was a federalist one. Congress was prohibited from passing statutes regarding establishments of religion in large part because most of the individual states still had their own established churches at the time.