Largest Paper in Canada Prints Hate Column Against Catholic Church

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They better watch out. You can try to scourage the Church and take your best shots, but if there is one thing the Church has done in the past and will do is again, is that it’ll raise from the dead.
 
The persecutions are coming. Pray and fast that you may be ready to defend your faith.
 
Religious illiteracy runs rampant in the media

Judging from all the heat and smoke emanating from Canada’s national media over the Catholic Church in recent weeks, you’d think the Pope had personally issued an excommunication of the prime minister.

But there has been nothing of the sort. In fact, nothing much at all has happened in the last couple of weeks involving the Roman Catholic Church and its relationship to the state. All the same, there has been a string of stories, news reports and overheated radio talk shows about purported threats by the Vatican to refuse Communion to those Catholic politicians who fail to toe the doctrinal line on such issues as same-sex marriage and abortion. The height of silliness was exhibited by the Toronto Star with its Sept. 30 headline, “Martin faces Vatican wrath.”
 
**“So the Pope is thinking about excommunicating our Prime Minister, is he? In the religion game, that’s called hardball,” **
  1. The Pope would not be doing the excommunication. It would be done by the Prime Minister himself if he obstinantly opposes the Body of Christ and yet still receives the holy Body of Christ.
  2. The Pope doesn’t think he’s playing a game. This is his life.
  3. It isn’t hardball. It is softball. It gives yet another chance for repentance before death. Hardball would be a lightning strike from above.
"So if the Pope wants to play hardball, fine. We can play hardball too. How about he can excommunicate our Prime Minister and we can get rid of the tax exemption on Catholic Church property?"

Make my day. It should have been done a long time ago. Then we could hear what the Church really teaches instead of milk toast.

"What a windfall that would be. Millions. Millions upon millions. Mega-millions if we make it retroactive . . "
  1. Millions to the state? You’ve done such a poor job with the millions you already pilfer from all the citizens, what makes you think you’d do any better with these millions you’d receive from double-taxing the faithful?
  2. Make it retroactive? Not sure what the law is in Canada but it seems here in the states we now can seize private property for any reason whatsoever. If that applies up north, perhaps the government can seize your property and make it retroactive for all your previous residences so you can pay their value to the government with all your assets until you don’t have a penny left and are begging on the street. Wouldn’t that be cool?
"They’d have to start selling their real estate. Failing that, we’d have to seize it and auction it off. It’s happened before. It was a fairly popular medieval screw-you gesture"

I see. So whenever someone does something that isn’t “modern” it is “medieval” in the sense of ignorant and cruel. But when it suits Church persecution, “medieval” becomes the right thing to do. A “screw-you” is ok as long as it is done out of righteous indignation for not being able to receive what you believe to be bread wafers.

**“I hope this won’t be mistaken for some kind of threat. It’s just that if the Pope feels inclined to give us something to think about, we might as well give him something to think about.” **

In other words, "don’t consider me threatening you to be a threat because then I might face some opposition and I would really like to “screw-you” before you have the chance to understand that I’m trying to beat you into the ground. "

"All’s fair in faith and war. But isn’t it strange that the further we move ahead into the 21st century, the further the Vatican moves backward into the 12th?"

Yes. Kind of like seizing property bought by the tythes of little old ladies.
 
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Brad:
"So if the Pope wants to play hardball, fine. We can play hardball too. How about he can excommunicate our Prime Minister and we can get rid of the tax exemption on Catholic Church property?"

Make my day. It should have been done a long time ago. Then we could hear what the Church really teaches instead of milk toast.
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Excellent post. Then the citizens could also tie up the courts with law suits against the government for double tasing. We should not be tax exempt. We should just not have to pay double taxes.

But…I wonder if we should eliminate corporate income taxes as well? But that is another question for another thread.

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Brad said:
"What a windfall that would be. Millions. Millions upon millions. Mega-millions if we make it retroactive . . "
  1. Millions to the state? You’ve done such a poor job with the millions you already pilfer from all the citizens, what makes you think you’d do any better with these millions you’d receive from double-taxing the faithful?
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Bring it on, Toronto Star, first donor to Judy Rebbick, publisher of anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic profanity courtesy of tax-payers’ dollars.

Bring it on, but after all levels of government have returned the billions and **billions **of dollars they have outright – allegedly – stolen from the public and from the homeless – and after all those public servants are behind bars.

My opinion of the Toronto Star:

**People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones! :mad: **
 
Letter to the Canadian Catholic civil rights league.
Below is the reply from the Toronto Star concerning the article by Mr.Slinger. I hope the league is planning to oppose this cheap shot. There was nothing remotely funny about it. Before the Jews were hauled off to concentration camps the Nazi propaganda machine ridiculed them as sub-human. The threat about removing tax exemptions is not an idle one: witness the numerous letters to the editor suggesting just that during the ssm debate; the comments posted at Rabble-Rouser during the Morgentaler fiasco; and Revenue Canada’s agency interference with Bishop Henry during the last federal election. Removing tax status most certainly is on the agenda of enemies of the Church. This suggestion did not limit itself to attacking church leaders. To the contrary, the media elite surreptitiously seek to circumscribe the religious freedoms of all people of faith by depriving them of their houses of worship. This not too subtle threat is tantamount to a bullying intimidation tactic.
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This is the reply from the Toronto Star to my letter of complaint.
I’m sorry that you found Mr. Slinger’s column to be offensive. Columnists are given wide latitude to express controversial opinions. Mr. Slinger was not inciting hatred and persecution against Roman Catholics, he was being critical of church leaders. He is a satirist and used an aggressive tone to mimic the aggressive tone that he believes the Pope is taking on this matter. When someone takes a strong position on a religious matter, many people will disagree. I would defend your right to disagree with Mr. Slinger as strongly as I would defend his right to express his opinion.
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This was my email to the editor to the Toronto Star yesterday.
As a Catholic I am dismayed with the Toronto Star’s abuse of its’ power to promote anti-Catholic bigotry in the form of undisguised threats to expropriate church property. The church has a long history of governments doing just that: the 16th.c.English Reformation, the 1789 French revolution and the 1917 Russian revolution to name just a few. I remind you of these precedents and their collective failure to destroy the Catholic Church; circumscribe, impoverish, yes; diminish, destroy, never.

Our nation, impeded by historical amnesia and led by increasingly aggressive, intolerant secularists, cannot survive as a healthy democracy. Why? Organized without God a state will organize itself against man. Ultramodern humanism can only attack and undermine democracy: it cannot sustain or defend it.

The very fact that Joey Slinger had the audacity to write such a column demonstrates Canada has already passed several warning signposts and has ignored them.
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Ah sweet Canada, why do you accept everyone but Catholics?

I really, really wish I could say I was surprised but, sadly I am not. The laws, polices and general attitude of pretty much everyone has been going the opposite direction for years, it’s really no surprise they’re starting the to persecute Catholics.

All we can do is pray for our fallen brother Slinger, and stand fast against what may (or may not) be coming.

P.S Oh and finally, does anyone know why Canadians in general, are so angry. Excommunicate (at least I thought) isn’t permanent (as long as he repents). Canadians are pretty smart, don’t they realize if you publicly violate a clubs rules your bound to get repromanded?

P.P.S Is this “cut the churches” tax exemption a growing movement, a while ago I stumbled on a site trying to do the same thing but for the United States.
 
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