The illustrious Michael Coren was the guest speaker at Nashville Community Church not far from Bolton here yesterday. The star of the appropriately named ‘The Michael Coren Show’ and regular articles in the National Post and Sun Media papers, Coren is probably best known for being a slightly controversial social conservative. His talk was on what place religion holds in politics, and had I known he was coming there in advance it might have been a great chance for some of our local liberals to join as he did open the floor to any questions people had. Of particular interest to me were a few points, and the authenticity of them can certainly be argued in comments.
First – the separation of church and state. Interesting, he noted, as it’s actually an American policy and not a Canadian one, and was actually instituted to keep the state out of the church and not vice versa. His argument was that the founding fathers of the USA, most of them Christians from England, had experienced religious persecution by the Church of England and wanted to ensure similar things didn’t happen in their new country. He went on to note that, in his experience, it’s typically the most anti-American people arguing for the division of church and state in Canada, which I suppose is somewhat ironic. His second point on this topic, which I agree with and found interesting, is that when people demand the division of church and state they’re actually simply demanding that people not be allowed to have their thoughts and deeds be guided by their Christianity. His evidence was around the general reluctance of the media, or people in general, to criticize a person of Jewish or Muslim faith who involve themselves in politics while still publicly holding to their belief system. Yet, a Christian politician guided by his morality would be subject to ridicule and a lack of acceptance of that morality. Interesting topics for sure, and the 90 minutes went by quickly.
Oh, and remember this post from four months ago where I proclaimed the pending death of the Starbucks Breakfast Sandwich within two years? Turns out I may have been generous – www.savethebreakfastsandwich.com is reporting they’re gone before this year is through. Inexplicably, they’re also trying to save it.
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