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CHIMO

(9,223 posts)
Mon Aug 6, 2012, 11:05 PM Aug 2012

Understanding Harper's Evangelical Mission

Any Canadian listening to the news these days might well conclude that the Republican extremists or some associated evangelical group has occupied Ottawa.

And they'd be righter than Job, I believe.

Almost daily, more evidence surfaces that Canada's government is guided by tribalists averse to scientific reason in favour of Biblical fundamentalism -- or what some call "evangelical religious skepticism."

First came Canada's pull-out of the Kyoto agreement without any rational or achievable national plan to battle carbon pollution.

http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2012/03/26/Harper-Evangelical-Mission/

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