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Gotta agree with flameswin here.
Like it or not, Canada was founded on the pricipals of guys who thought God was and should be the guiding force of law and morality, and as such those are the pricipals that the Carter should protect, and those are some pretty good pricipals.
Marchhare:
If you'd like to point out exactly which of those pricipals you disagree with, I'll agree that that's an offensive statement.
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Which principles of God and religion forming the basis of morality are you referring to, exactly? The 10 Commandments?
In a previous thread several months ago, I established that only two of the 10 Commandments actually coincide with laws in Canada, and the Charter even contradicts many of the other Commandments. Furthermore, the only two Commandments that match Canadian law (don't steal and don't kill) are actually universal values that transcend
every society, regardless of the dominant religion (or lack of religion) in that region.
When you talk about Canada having been founded on the basis of (Christian) religion, you must realize that we're not talking about old men in 1867 founding the nation. When Canada's constitution was repatriated in 1982, that action superceded all previous laws, and at that time, it was agreed that Canada was a multicultural nation that granted freedom of conscience and religion to all citizens.