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Canadian advisory panel suggests booting God from the military
American Thinker ^ | 05/01/2022 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 05/01/2022 7:07:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

When I first read Father Raymond J. de Souza’s opinion piece in Canada’s National Post, entitled “New report recommends turning the Armed Forces into a secular theocracy,” I thought was reading a clever satire about the reductio ad absurdum of woke thinking when applied to the military. It was an effort for me to wrap my mind around the fact that he was describing the Canadian “Minister of National Defence Advisory Panel on Systemic Racism and Discrimination—Final Report—January 2022.”

The Panel concluded that all traditional Abrahamic religions that haven’t embraced the LGBTQ+++ pantheon, radical feminism, or polytheism have no place in Canada’s armed forces.

Upon perusing the Final Report , you know how the wind is blowing for traditional religion in the Canadian Armed Forces (“CAF”) when read that each Advisory Panel meeting begins with a prayer.

One might expect a nice ecumenical prayer giving thanks for all the blessings in our world but that’s too bland for the Ministry of Defence’s panel:

[F]ollowing a valued tradition from many First Nations, Inuit and Métis, we use a short form of the Haudenosaunee Ohenten Kariwatekwen, the “words spoken before all others.” It helps us clear our minds, honour creation, and remember our responsibilities towards the land, its peoples, and our mission.

Most importantly, it brings our minds together from the various individual journeys we are all on so that we can walk together for a short time.


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; god; military
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1 posted on 05/01/2022 7:07:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m pretty sure He got disgusted and already left.


2 posted on 05/01/2022 7:09:45 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump. Let's Go Brandon! FJB!)
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To: SeekAndFind

If you’re detecting a purely pagan hostility to the Judeo-Christian tradition, you’re correct. That bias is consistent with the Advisory Panel’s mandate, which is to root out anything hostile to the people and values of the left.

“All forms of systemic racism and discrimination, including anti-Indigenous and anti-Black racism, LGBTQ2+ prejudice, gender bias, right-wing extremism and white supremacy are exhibited within the CAF”—and they must go.


3 posted on 05/01/2022 7:10:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder where I would go to read multiple accounts of what happens when a people turns their backs on God.....?


4 posted on 05/01/2022 7:12:21 AM PDT by G Larry (Anybody notice that Satan is hard at work?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Poor Oh Canada!


5 posted on 05/01/2022 7:12:53 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Because having the Creator of the entire Universe on your side is somehow bad.


6 posted on 05/01/2022 7:12:56 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: G Larry

When the Hebrews turned to paganism in the old testament. Rhetorical answer.


7 posted on 05/01/2022 7:14:07 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, Canada’s toast if they do that.


8 posted on 05/01/2022 7:14:11 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I am in awe of how far the CAF has fallen and will continue to slide. They will make the Russian armed forces look like rolling giants on the planet. Oh, wait…


9 posted on 05/01/2022 7:15:33 AM PDT by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: SeekAndFind

Godless Marxists?


10 posted on 05/01/2022 7:16:35 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: SeekAndFind

It will soon get to be a troop of Boy Scouts supported by the sea scouts will be able to whip the CAF. Not that the CAF could not fight but they will not have the equipment nor the will to get out of bed.


11 posted on 05/01/2022 7:18:35 AM PDT by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: SeekAndFind

I just read another post where Ukraine’s Zelensky declared “the West has lost its courage.”

And Canada, whose only religious zeal is expressed in socialist central-planning, gay rights, and multi-culuralism - by removing any final words of respect towards God - is going to become a fearsome military power?

LOL. LOL. LOL.


12 posted on 05/01/2022 7:24:38 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: SeekAndFind

MILITARY Troops allege military’s COVID vaccine mandate is a ‘religious purge’ - NewsBreak

https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2586504404491/troops-allege-military-s-covid-vaccine-mandate-is-a-religious-purge?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MTcyODI5MjA3LTE2NTEyNzg0OTM2OTA=


13 posted on 05/01/2022 7:31:16 AM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I have sent a few quips about the CAF, but I am really saddened by the fall of a great institution with a long line of people of courage and honor being dragged down by ideologues, poor thinkers, and groupthink committees.


14 posted on 05/01/2022 7:31:33 AM PDT by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: SeekAndFind

Obviously these advisors have never been in a foxhole.


15 posted on 05/01/2022 7:35:45 AM PDT by dblshot
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah good call canana, because history teaches that it is never a good idea to have God on your side when fighting battles /s


16 posted on 05/01/2022 7:57:46 AM PDT by Bob434 (.)
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To: G Larry

[[I wonder where I would go to read multiple accounts of what happens when a people turns their backs on God.....?]]

I’m stumped, i know there must be a book somewhere thst recorded such things. 😆


17 posted on 05/01/2022 7:59:40 AM PDT by Bob434 (.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Never listen to anyone who has a pussy hat on they are full mode crazy.


18 posted on 05/01/2022 8:11:00 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

There are no atheists in foxholes.


19 posted on 05/01/2022 8:14:37 AM PDT by themidnightskulker (And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
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To: SeekAndFind

The US Department of Defense recognizes 221 different religions.

https://religionnews.com/2017/04/21/defense-department-expands-its-list-of-recognized-religions/


20 posted on 05/01/2022 8:38:54 AM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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