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Originally Posted by Fuzz
By people continuing to attend and financially support the Catholic Church, they are giving the organization a pass on their atrocities. The Church understands money and attendance. Take that power away. Write your pastor and tell them you aren't coming back and won't be contributing financially until they apologize properly, release records and cooperate fully. Catholics have power to actually help here. But they've been convinced skipping Church will harm them in the afterlife, so not many will do it. But if you are a Catholic(not directed specifically at you, GGG), think long and hard about how you are enabling the continued harm that is being done to our fellow Canadians.
And if you want to deflect, as a Canadian I try to vote in a manner that supports the same actions, and am happy to have my tax dollars fund what needs to be funded. But I can't fund the Church any less than I already do.
It's weird, because people like to talk about all the good Churches do as to why they deserve a tax free status. Well, now's their chance.
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I actually think we are pretty close to having the same position on the residential school issue in general. The Church is a failing institution in Canada whose money and attendance will drop with time.
My concern with what has become religion bashing is that it misses the larger actor and the one that continues to fail. This is continuous government policies and failure since white people landed in North America and still continues today.
I think things that focus on the Catholic Churches failure especially in the tone of UCBs posts is trying to create a group of others to blame while rationalizing all of the benefit we have received from these policies.
We as individuals benefit tremendously from the murder and mistreatment of aboriginal people in a historical and ongoing basis and elect governments who just pay lip service to the issue.
It has never been an election issue so why does one expect it to be a church attendance issue. All of the suggestions of write your pastor apply to write your MP and MLA. The othering of this issue really frustrates me. We have a Prime Minister who thanked protesters for their political contribution who want clean water while he had security escort them out and continues to have done nothing to fix the issue. We have known about the graves publically since the TRuth and Rec report and the government did nothing.
I don’t want to be dismissive of what the church did but every moment that isn’t focused on the current governments failures is wasting the very brief time that the public cares about this issue. This is Today’s problem and the bad actor today is our governments.