Well this is concerning. It has the potential to force me to reorient my entire world view.
Now, I understand that Canada must not have a Constitution, or if they do, it's radically different from the US Constitution and it's alleged guarantees of freedom. So, this is sort of what I'd expect from the Canadian government... especially in light of their actions over the past 10 or 20 years or so. But that's not really what I'm talking about. Over my lifetime, I've gotten used to the fact that Totalitarians is gonna totalitarianize.
No, what I'm referring to is the fact that a certain brand of Christian has been predicting just this sort of thing for several decades now. I always considered that they must be batshit crazy, but here we are now.. If they turn out to have been right in those predictions, then what other batshit crazy things have they said over the year that I'm now going to have to consider as possibilities?
I can't be assed to worry over "Zionists" or "rubble in Gaza" in connection with this activity. That's half a world away from both me and Canada. But the author's mention of the Dispensationalism heresy DID strike a chord. That's real, and it's in the here and now... by "here" I mean HERE, not half a world away.
"Zionism" is an abstraction, something to scare the children (and fundamentalist Moslems) with when they are misbehaving. But Dispensationalism, now there is a monster you can really sink a spear into...
... and it looks like that monster might be roaring in Canada,
When fighting monsters, i's always best to start with the monsters you can actually reach and get hold of.
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Now, I understand that Canada must not have a Constitution, or if they do, it's radically different from the US Constitution and it's alleged guarantees of freedom. So, this is sort of what I'd expect from the Canadian government... especially in light of their actions over the past 10 or 20 years or so. But that's not really what I'm talking about. Over my lifetime, I've gotten used to the fact that Totalitarians is gonna totalitarianize.
No, what I'm referring to is the fact that a certain brand of Christian has been predicting just this sort of thing for several decades now. I always considered that they must be batshit crazy, but here we are now.. If they turn out to have been right in those predictions, then what other batshit crazy things have they said over the year that I'm now going to have to consider as possibilities?
I can't be assed to worry over "Zionists" or "rubble in Gaza" in connection with this activity. That's half a world away from both me and Canada. But the author's mention of the Dispensationalism heresy DID strike a chord. That's real, and it's in the here and now... by "here" I mean HERE, not half a world away.
"Zionism" is an abstraction, something to scare the children (and fundamentalist Moslems) with when they are misbehaving. But Dispensationalism, now there is a monster you can really sink a spear into...
... and it looks like that monster might be roaring in Canada,
When fighting monsters, i's always best to start with the monsters you can actually reach and get hold of.
.
“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake