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“Agree with thine adversary quickly…”: Rod Taylor
I have always thought it unfortunate and unwise that the Opposition feels so compelled to oppose everything proposed by the government, both federally and provincially. Of course, we all know that “holding their feet to the fire” (deemed a solemn responsibility) has more attraction if it also embarrasses the ruling party and gives those in opposition a leg up in the next election. In that sense, it can be expected as par for the course that agreement will be the least likely path chosen by the opposition when new legislation is put forward or issues are raised.
The Left’s war against personal responsibility
Many of the problems in our society are symptomatic of the rejection of personal responsibility. Because of the importance of personal responsibility or self-government, I find that a much more important issues to address than the symptoms, as serious as the symptoms are. The following letter from Quebec demonstrates our culture’s hostility to personal responsibility. It also reveals that this despicable attitude is the attitude of today’s adults. It’s not a teen problem. The teens exhibit it because their parents are tolerating and embracing this cult of irresponsibility. Today’s youth are the third generation of Canadians who have been at war with the principle of self-government under God. (I won’t embarrass the letter-writer by including her name here.)
Galatians 6: Self-gov’t under God and Biblical charity
ChristianGovernance e-letter – November 17, 2010
God’s law in brief
Galatians 6:1-10
This is the Scripture passage that pertains to the “God’s law in brief” commentary.
We need more men in Canada
ChristianGovernance e-letter – November 11, 2010
We need more men in Canada
We live in a hyper-feminized culture where masculinity is mocked, caricatured and condemned. Many men go along with it – and others are simply lost and confused. We read about young women being more purpose-driven and focused than men, aimless men staying home with parents into their late twenties and thirties, and the sexual confusion of homosexuality and what today is called “transgendered.”
Terrifying liberal confusion over innocent and criminally guilty life
This also has horrific implications for tyranny because it changes the nature of justice and the nature and role/function of the state. Today’s growing institutional tyranny is logically developing alongside the trend towards moral anarchy. With an abandonment of self-government under God and His law, everyone does what is right in his own eyes and you have moral anarchy. The large majority of people fear moral anarchy, so they embrace or tolerate tyranny if it promises to solve the moral problem. One of the most dangerous expressions of moral anarchy is an inability to distinguish between innocent and guilt, and especially criminal innocence and guilt.
The police may think they license citizens to carry arms, but they don’t
The police may think they license citizens to carry arms, but they don’t. It’s citizens who license the police. They license them to carry arms, to enforce the law, to investigate crime, to serve and protect. All power flows from the public to the authorities, not the other way around. In free societies, that is. There are societies w…here power flow is reversed. They’re called police states. – George Jonas, “Hunting ducks, protecting families” (National Post, Sept. 25, 2010)
America’s Constitutional Convention was first devastating assault on freedom
[There's a link below to read the whole article online.]
American Vision – September 24, 2010
Sam Adams to America: “I told you so.”
By Joel McDurmon
Upon the whole, we are too apt to charge those misfortunes to the want of energy in our government, which we have brought upon ourselves by dissipation and extravagance. – “Candidus”
Ontario libertarians at centre of property rights fight
I was as shocked as any other respectable Canadian when I saw the reports about the illegal bureaucratic swarming against the rural Ontario Jaworski family.
Oh, wait a second. It wasn’t illegal. The kind of behaviour that makes bureaucrats indistinguishable from mob enforcers is increasingly legal in Ontario… and this country.