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The Burning of Canada’s Churches
Wall Street Journal ^ | July 29, 2021 | Paul Tuns

Posted on 07/30/2021 3:57:40 PM PDT by billorites

It has been a difficult summer for Canada’s Christians. Over five days in late June, four Catholic churches and an Anglican church were burned to the ground, the first churches to be set ablaze or vandalized to begin a summer of such desecration. Suspicious fires then broke out across the country. In all, at least 56 churches have been set aflame or vandalized, according to the True North Centre, which is mapping attacks on churches.

This is unquestionably a crisis, but you wouldn’t think it from observing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s response. Although the first suspected arson happened June 21, he didn’t speak out on the issue until July 1. Worse, after dozens of the incidents across seven different provinces and territories, there has been only one arrest. “Am I wrong,” asked Aaron Wudrick of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, “or have more people been arrested in Canada this year for going inside a church to worship than for burning one down?”

Police are investigating whether the suspected arsons are connected to the news that hundreds of children were buried in unmarked graves at government-mandated, church-run Indian residential schools in Canada. The residential schools operated from 1883 to 1996 but were mostly wound down by the 1980s. They were populated by approximately 150,000 indigenous children separated from their parents and—following the progressive orthodoxy of the day—assimilated into Western culture. Such arrangements offend today’s sensibilities, but they were supported by politicians of all stripes, religious orders in various denominations, and education reformers.

It is understandable that some indigenous people feel anger and betrayal over these tragic institutions. The number of estimated remains at gravesites is astounding—more than 1,200 suspected unmarked graves were recently discovered at five former school sites in Western Canada—but it has long been known that there were a large number

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1 posted on 07/30/2021 3:57:40 PM PDT by billorites
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To: billorites

The entire piece is available at the link above.


2 posted on 07/30/2021 3:58:33 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: billorites

Islam ☪️ and communism The pillars of hate against Christ

Christ loves and forgives them


3 posted on 07/30/2021 4:02:58 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (Arizona !!!! Now the TRUMP TRAIN is getting back on TRACK ! TRUTH! FREEDOM ! LIBERTY! )
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The evil ones can easily be brought around through HIM


4 posted on 07/30/2021 4:03:49 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (Arizona !!!! Now the TRUMP TRAIN is getting back on TRACK ! TRUTH! FREEDOM ! LIBERTY! )
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To: billorites
The world 🌎🌍 is counting down towards the 7-year Tribulation.

The spirit of antichrist is especially busy these days, it seems.

5 posted on 07/30/2021 4:04:52 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ, and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com)
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Trudeau the punch drunk pothead is to blame , 100%


6 posted on 07/30/2021 4:05:48 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: billorites
It is understandable that some indigenous people feel anger and betrayal over these tragic institutions

How many Canadians have gone out and burned natives homes and casinos down in the last 100 years?

7 posted on 07/30/2021 4:26:12 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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Canada is lost. I’ll never go back.


8 posted on 07/30/2021 4:29:43 PM PDT by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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These arsonists will pay for their sins at the moment of their particular judgment. (The moment they die.)


9 posted on 07/30/2021 4:50:16 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Trudeau might be unconcerned because it may b his program going forward. he has evinced some serious hostility to the Christian religion.


10 posted on 07/30/2021 5:48:30 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe F)
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Since January 1, 2021, there have been 45 churches set on fire in the USA.


11 posted on 07/30/2021 6:36:40 PM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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Castro’s kid don’t care?


12 posted on 07/30/2021 7:53:22 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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