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Forcing Catholic school to teach “secular” religion course is 'totalitarian,' critics say
Life Site News ^ | 12-14-12 | Peter Baklinski

Posted on 12/17/2012 7:23:43 PM PST by ReformationFan

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Coming south of the border very soon......
1 posted on 12/17/2012 7:23:51 PM PST by ReformationFan
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To: ReformationFan

This is what happens when a church worships Mammon.


2 posted on 12/17/2012 7:28:11 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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How so?


3 posted on 12/17/2012 7:33:42 PM PST by Lee N. Field ("You keep using that verse, but I do not think it means what you think it means." --I. Montoya)
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To: ReformationFan

Is The government of Quebec funding Catholic Schools? In Quebec, are students forced to go to Catholic schools ? If they don fund and they don’t require attendance, they don’t have a say.


4 posted on 12/17/2012 7:35:36 PM PST by oyez (Hell must be a Gun Free Zone.)
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Government money mattered more to them tha religious freedom apparently. Well. They took the cash. Now they’re all indignant when they’re expected to play the Government tune.

Fools...


5 posted on 12/17/2012 7:35:50 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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What do you mean coming? It’s here and it’s ugly! There is no God in schools. He’s been evicted by the moral decay and corruption of our society. We have forgotten our heritage and have denied him time and time again. We were once a Christian nation, but now, we are secularist. No longer believing in heaven or hell. God forgive us for we have been blinded to the truth.


6 posted on 12/17/2012 7:36:06 PM PST by 41Thunder (The SUPPLY of Government is GREATER than the DEMAND of the people)
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Lurker, maybe if you weren’t so blinded by your hatred of Catholicism that you’ll justify anything that harms the Catholic faith, you might actually learn what the laws of Quebec are before you proclaim as fact whatever thought occurs to you to defend your bigotry.

Quebec’s Catholic schools are not (usually) subsidized. (A minority receive vouchers.) Formerly, Canada had Protestant and Catholic “confessional” schools, through which the state instructed students in the religious beliefs of their parents’ choosing. Nonetheless, many Quebecois opted to pay their own tuitions and form their own schools, precisely because they DID reject the government’s entangling with religion; Quebec has the highest proportion of students going to private schools of any state, province or territory in North America.


7 posted on 12/17/2012 7:50:56 PM PST by dangus
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"This is what happens when a church worships Mammon."

I wouldn't know, I don't go to your church.

Peace be with you

8 posted on 12/17/2012 7:53:22 PM PST by Natural Law (Jesus did not leave us a Bible, He left us a Church.)
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History shows that the state can't keep it hands off religion.

Is already south of the border. Been here for years.

9 posted on 12/17/2012 7:54:27 PM PST by oyez (Hell must be a Gun Free Zone.)
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You write like you believe in freedom! What a silly, passe’ belief! No, the government long ago forced government-subsidized “Catholic” schools (called “confessional schools”) to abandon their religious instruction and simply parrot the godlessness of the federal government. Fortunately, the Church foresaw the danger, and maintained its own private schools. So the “free-thinkers” are moving to destroy even those.


10 posted on 12/17/2012 7:55:27 PM PST by dangus
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If you dig up the constitution of the USSR, you would find that it gives the people “symbolic” freedom of religion.

Today, that is what we’re getting in the West, freedom of religion as long as it suits the State.


11 posted on 12/17/2012 8:05:11 PM PST by oyez (Hell must be a Gun Free Zone.)
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You have me all wrong. I don’t hate the Catholic church. I hate they they won’t simply tell the Governent to go pee up a rope. The Canadian Catholics should announce that they will no longer accept a single Loonie from the Government in any way, shape, or form for any purpose whatsoever.


12 posted on 12/17/2012 8:10:46 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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sionce when does the govenrmenth ve the right to dictate to a private school what they should teach? Does the constitution nnot mean anythign anymore?


13 posted on 12/17/2012 8:41:32 PM PST by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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whoops- just read headlines- I see it’;s abotu canada- however- expect thsi here very very soon too-


14 posted on 12/17/2012 8:42:16 PM PST by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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15 posted on 12/17/2012 8:50:29 PM PST by narses
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16 posted on 12/17/2012 8:51:02 PM PST by narses
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17 posted on 12/17/2012 8:51:59 PM PST by narses
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Well, I suppose this thwarts my recent consideration of Canada as a possible place to migrate to.

Back to the pondering.....


18 posted on 12/17/2012 8:56:24 PM PST by Scotswife
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I suppose this would be an hour a week sort of course - I would teach it and then spend the following hour comparing it to Christianity and Church teaching. I think it would teach the students to think critically about other belief systems and value their own more.

Mel


19 posted on 12/17/2012 9:03:53 PM PST by melsec (Once a Jolly Swagman camped by a Billabong....)
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OMG!


20 posted on 12/18/2012 1:56:12 AM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION........the HUMAN sacrifice to the god of CONVENIENCE.)
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