Comments on: ChristianGovernance’s Ontario election agenda https://christiangovernance.ca/projects/ontario-2011-election/christiangovernances-ontario-election-agenda ChristianGovernance Sat, 16 Oct 2010 23:42:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Etch https://christiangovernance.ca/projects/ontario-2011-election/christiangovernances-ontario-election-agenda/comment-page-1#comment-1397 Etch Wed, 13 Oct 2010 04:52:05 +0000 http://christiangovernment.ca/?p=1693#comment-1397 We need some counter points here! Education: I just posted in your article regarding this topic. To sum my key point; removing the government (read: tax support) from schooling leaves only home and private schooling. Some people will be unable to pay for private schools and unable to provide home school; you're condemning their children to no education, which will drive a greater and greater wedge between the rich and poor. Human Rights: "God's Law"? I can pretty easily assume you mean "Christian God's Law", considering the forum. Do you not foresee some problems from, oh, I don't know, every other religious group who may want their religious law enshrined? Ignoring that; WHICH Christian law? Just New Testament, or Old Testament too? Maybe some of the spin off stuff like the Book of Mormon or something from the Jehova's Witnesses? But let's talk brass tacks; clearly you mean the Ten Commandments. Do you want to enforce that the population worships the Christian god? Is there an objective definition for what does and does not constitute idolatry? How extensive are blasphemy laws to be enforced? Most Christians observe Sunday as the Sabbath, even though it's historically been Saturday -- do you plan to change that? Let's skip ahead -- for adultery, are we going with Jesus' definition, that even thinking of it is an offense? How will we prosecute people's thoughts? Similarly, does coveting need to be demonstrated, or is merely thinking of it warrant punishment? And actually, while we're at it, should we be using the Bible in it's original text for the judgments or will a modern edition do? I know everyone's very fond of the King James edition, but of all the editions are we sure it's exactly the right one? Specifics are very important for practical implementation of law. Try as they might, not everyone can be a biblical scholar (especially if they can't read because we've done away with Public Schools). Energy Oligopoly: I can understand a lot of why the country's energy policies may concern you. I have concerns myself; however, if we deregulate Energy like you propose, what is to prevent the use of power-distribution as a luxury item? Are you not concerned about private, corporate greed? Do you really want private organizations having control over the livelihood of millions of Canadians? How would this be any different from privatizing our water supplies and selling with artificial demand restraints? If you're concerned about underhanded goings ons in our Energy departments, we already have systems in place to investigate them, through our representation in government. How would a private system do this any better? We need some counter points here!

Education: I just posted in your article regarding this topic. To sum my key point; removing the government (read: tax support) from schooling leaves only home and private schooling. Some people will be unable to pay for private schools and unable to provide home school; you’re condemning their children to no education, which will drive a greater and greater wedge between the rich and poor.

Human Rights: “God’s Law”? I can pretty easily assume you mean “Christian God’s Law”, considering the forum. Do you not foresee some problems from, oh, I don’t know, every other religious group who may want their religious law enshrined? Ignoring that; WHICH Christian law? Just New Testament, or Old Testament too? Maybe some of the spin off stuff like the Book of Mormon or something from the Jehova’s Witnesses?

But let’s talk brass tacks; clearly you mean the Ten Commandments. Do you want to enforce that the population worships the Christian god? Is there an objective definition for what does and does not constitute idolatry? How extensive are blasphemy laws to be enforced? Most Christians observe Sunday as the Sabbath, even though it’s historically been Saturday — do you plan to change that? Let’s skip ahead — for adultery, are we going with Jesus’ definition, that even thinking of it is an offense? How will we prosecute people’s thoughts? Similarly, does coveting need to be demonstrated, or is merely thinking of it warrant punishment?

And actually, while we’re at it, should we be using the Bible in it’s original text for the judgments or will a modern edition do? I know everyone’s very fond of the King James edition, but of all the editions are we sure it’s exactly the right one? Specifics are very important for practical implementation of law. Try as they might, not everyone can be a biblical scholar (especially if they can’t read because we’ve done away with Public Schools).

Energy Oligopoly: I can understand a lot of why the country’s energy policies may concern you. I have concerns myself; however, if we deregulate Energy like you propose, what is to prevent the use of power-distribution as a luxury item? Are you not concerned about private, corporate greed? Do you really want private organizations having control over the livelihood of millions of Canadians? How would this be any different from privatizing our water supplies and selling with artificial demand restraints?

If you’re concerned about underhanded goings ons in our Energy departments, we already have systems in place to investigate them, through our representation in government. How would a private system do this any better?

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