Canada was, at one time, well on the way to being a secular country.
Christianity was on the wane as the level of education increased and people grew increasingly skeptical of institutionalized religion.
Religious morality was seen to be too inhibiting and restrictive in our increasingly tolerant liberal society.
Most Canadians, including most non-secular people, accepted that religion was no longer the institution it once was.
There were exception to this drift away from religion: the Sikh and Hindu communities remained committed to their faith, as did the Jewish and Buddhist communities.
Immigration increased the Sikh and Hindu populations and the heretofore minor Muslim population began growing dramatically.
The new arrivals were just as committed to their respective religions as the local communities and formed their respective cultural silos as encouraged by the federal government.
White Canada continued on its path to tolerant secularism but this was not acceptable to the increasing numbers of people in the non-white non secular community.
Ironically, in today’s white progressive Canadian society, Christianity is largely dismissed as a hindrance to secular morality while non-Christian religions are afforded a much higher level of respect in spite of being at far greater odds with secular morality than is Christianity.
It is now deemed politically insensitive to wish a strange a Merry Christmas but it is quite acceptable for other non-secular groups to call for alterations in Canada’s laws to permit those practised by their communities to supersede them.
Such initiatives are disturbing to those who do not want a society substantially influenced by religious dictates - particularly those dedicated to unquestioned obedience and suppression.
Islamism was never an issue until its radical adherents turned to terrorism - when Canadians reacted with justifiable caution towards those promoting Islam they were quickly demonized as being ‘Islamophobic’ by progressives but events have shown their caution was very well placed.
Monolithic religion had been on its way to the scrap heap of history in Canada but it is staging a revival that is unwelcome to those who have lived briefly without its control over their lives.
Canada was, at one time, well on the way to being a secular country.
Christianity was on the wane as the level of education increased and people grew increasingly skeptical of institutionalized religion.
Religious morality was seen to be too inhibiting and restrictive in our increasingly tolerant liberal society.
Most Canadians, including most non-secular people, accepted that religion was no longer the institution it once was.
There were exception to this drift away from religion: the Sikh and Hindu communities remained committed to their faith, as did the Jewish and Buddhist communities.
Immigration increased the Sikh and Hindu populations and the heretofore minor Muslim population began growing dramatically.
The new arrivals were just as committed to their respective religions as the local communities and formed their respective cultural silos as encouraged by the federal government.
White Canada continued on its path to tolerant secularism but this was not acceptable to the increasing numbers of people in the non-white non secular community.
Ironically, in today’s white progressive Canadian society, Christianity is largely dismissed as a hindrance to secular morality while non-Christian religions are afforded a much higher level of respect in spite of being at far greater odds with secular morality than is Christianity.
It is now deemed politically insensitive to wish a strange a Merry Christmas but it is quite acceptable for other non-secular groups to call for alterations in Canada’s laws to permit those practised by their communities to supersede them.
Such initiatives are disturbing to those who do not want a society substantially influenced by religious dictates - particularly those dedicated to unquestioned obedience and suppression.
Islamism was never an issue until its radical adherents turned to terrorism - when Canadians reacted with justifiable caution towards those promoting Islam they were quickly demonized as being ‘Islamophobic’ by progressives but events have shown their caution was very well placed.
Monolithic religion had been on its way to the scrap heap of history in Canada but it is staging a revival that is unwelcome to those who have lived briefly without its control over their lives.