Angry in the Great White North takes on one of his favourite subjects — people who think the Roman Catholic Church should be destroyed for suggesting that Catholic politicians act more, well, Catholic.
But because the Church dares apply her internal rules to a politician, she must be bankrupted and destroyed. Now communion is obligation that the Church must provide, at least to all politicians who demand it, lest they be embarrassed.
Does the same go for me? If I embarrass a politician, is Slinger going to demand that I lose my house too? If too many people write nasty things about the Prime Minister (or about Slinger) on the Internet, is Slinger going to demand that the Internet be brought to heel as well?
So Slinger is leading the charge to put the Church back in her place. Or more accurately, to put politicians in their place. A place above all criticism, where the rules that others live by do not apply, whether those rules are obligatory or willingly accepted.
Where all that matters is that politicians are not embarrassed.
Come to think of it, Slinger seems to worship at the altar of the Liberal Party. What? Someone has embarrassed you, Lord Martin? I will crush them!
Notice the empty wine glass directly across from Pettigrew. Do you suppose they were drinking wine prior to the photo being taken and decided that coffee and a seperate table would be more in order? hummmmmmmm.
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Slinger’s words could have come from a German socialist worker’s party paper in the 30s. Funny how cultural communism never seems to get away from it’s roots. Same stilted hate for the church, same deconstructions nihilism…these creeps bore me.
I read what you read mazz – it chilled me to the bone. It screams “death to the ‘enemies of the Liberanos'”, Solzinitzyn style gulags, the end of Liberty in Canada. We are at a crossroads and the Liberanos are creeping through the back door. Once in- they will set up shop and you and I will be working for them – forever – for nothing!! Your bathroom will be monitered as well as your bedroom. Shall we just sit tight with our collective heads under our left wings and ‘let’ it happen? Shall we stick our our necks and sream bloody murder and hope we wake up the sleeping hens – of course that assures anyone with a neck to chop first place in the chopping block line up. I guess I just made my decision.
‘Angry’ would probably be tickled pink with one of the Cdn Mint’s ‘John Paul II’ commemmorative gold coins, ( Cost-500 bucks. Face value-75 bucks). I would prefer to know why our federal flunky government has an embassy at the Holy See, with a yearly operating cost of one million bucks.
I don’t get why believing in imaginary people gets you a tax exemption.
They used to earn it when more people believed in imaginary deitys.
Now more people are believing in imaginary governments.
Millions of Canadians believe in the imaginary good of a massive centralized pork-spewing government. Donating to parties that maintain it gets you a tax exemption.
For all the hard talk some Canadian liberals and socialists spew re the Catholic Church, they never apply the same standards to the institutions of big government that they worship.
Vist any campus any dipper meeting most grit meetings and a moron with 20 words vocabulary can be labelled a genius provided those 20 words include:
“Bush” “dumb” “Harper” “Scary” “Americans” “imperialism” “Catholic” “Church” “Religion” etc etc etc…
It’s Canadian political discussions for dummies v. 2.0.
So if this Slinger guy believes your PM is above his chosen church’s rules, does this mean he believes in the “devine right of Prime Ministers”? 😉
“I don’t get why believing in imaginary people gets you a tax exemption.”
That’s not what does it, at least if Canadian law is in any way similar to US law on the subject. All non-profit organizations are tax-exempt: they don’t have to be religious in nature.
“Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?”
Dave J:
“All non-profit organizations are tax-exempt: they don’t have to be religious in nature.”
Dave, you bring up a good point that I’d missed entirely: if religious organizations were made to face the taxman, what pretext would any other non-profit organization have to remain tax-exempt?
Seems Steve and Slinger both ride the statist hobby horse. I may ask him if he supports the concept of division of church and state why allow the state into the church? I may ask him why people who belive in gender politics and exclusive sexual practices and other orthodoxies have institutions which have tax free status. Is this tax just on the Christian church or does it effect Jews, Buddists, Muslims and other churches as well…is this an equal spirituality punishment? I would also ask him why he would ignore the charity work of the churches as any less than secular charities in UW which recieve tax free status?
I can see besides being a cultural Marxist Steve is also a militant atheist who wishes to use the state to repress any belief system he does not subscribe to….in any event both Steve’s ans Slinger’s agressive and beligerent orthoxies are are a virulent as religious fundamentalism….as Steve amply displays.
And as I said before, cultural marxists are becoming so transparent they bore me.
“All non-profit organizations are tax-exempt: they don’t have to be religious in nature.”
Are other non-profits exempt from property taxes, as well?
Dean
Dean, my limited understanding of tax law tells me the answer is either universally yes or it varies by state, but at least in the US, you’d have both a First Amendment and an Equal Protection argument against any preferential tax treatment of religious vs. other kinds of non-profits. The idea that religions get that kind of preference here is therefore either based on ignorance or is a deliberate strawman.
I can’t speak for certain on the analogous situation in Canada, but an educated guess would be it’s pretty much the same. Perhaps I’ll do a bit of research and report back here on the subject.