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Having discussed this issue earlier in another submission, I'd like to repeat my primary concern with the rising power of right-wing religious views:
> Personally what I find disturbing is the reaction to this from the majority of those who do not hold such views is generally an intellectual attempt to explain the phenomena and nothing more, which in turn empowers far-right religious views with no effective opposition. In other words, in my opinion the majority of those who do not hold far-right religious views are merely playing the glass bead game.
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I think what we are seeing is increasing polarization. Whether we're talking about abortion, same-sex marriage or end of life choice, the arguments tend to come from the same base of religious fundamentalism.
Yet in Vermont, the successful governor campaigned on the promise of introducing death with dignity legislation.
The rise of Christian Nationalism is also becoming an increasing problem in Canada. Marci McDonald's outstanding book on the subject is I think a must read for all Canadians who are concerned about freedom from religious coercion.
http://www.amazon.ca/The-Armageddon-Factor-Christian-Nationalism/dp/0307356469
One very interesting fact though, is that at least in Canada, there is support for legalizing physician assisted dying legislation across all political parties. In the run up to the last Federal election, there was a Vote Compass Poll which asked people their views on a variety of subjects. The one and only statement which people from every political party agreed with was that physician assisted dying should be legalized.
Wow, pretty scathing article. I once read in The Armageddon Factor that Manning gets his political morality from William Wilberforce(the British parliamentarian who finally curbed slavery in the British Empire). Basically, Wilberforce tricked the House of Lords into passing a law that would in effect make transporting slaves illegal thus slavery was greatly diminished. So Manning sees it as okay to trick people or parliament as long as one is pursuing a higher moral goal. Which for him is a free market and a Christian state. This is how we can explain his and Harper's incremental approach to the transformation of Canada. Because they know that if they came out and told people they wanted to privatize health care and criminalize abortion most people wouldn't vote for them.
Stephen Harper's Canada
If you haven't heard of it you can easily click
https://watershedsentinel.ca/about/
Here's another one:
https://thewalrus.ca/stephen-harper-and-the-theo-cons/
Same author who wrote this book:
The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0307356469/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_ekMDDb8J5BEK1
It doesn't really matter if you've heard of it or not. Either the contents are true or they're not.
You haven't addressed anything I wrote so I'm not going to waste my time beyond this.
Why, Southen Ontario. Not Alberta or some rural area, but a prominent city with multiple universities. I think people who are surprised by this should talk to their family, relatives and friends more often about religion and what they believe. You would be shocked.
This book might be an eye opener as well to see what is really going on in Canadian public life in recent years
http://www.amazon.ca/Armageddon-Factor-Christian-Nationalism-Canada/dp/0307356469