This is concerning:

“Carney’s display of his Catholic faith Tuesday stood in stark contrast with a heated debate about the value of state secularism that played out an hour later at the Supreme Court of Canada.

Where Carney quoted from the Gospel of Matthew and from Christ’s Sermon on the Mount to talk about the grace and generosity that politicians should channel, Quebec’s lawyers argued religious beliefs should not be on display by public officials, saying the state should be neutral, and public services delivered without signs of any religious belief.”

While we all know Quebec’s ‘secular’ law is really about maintaining the dominance of the Catholic Church and suppressing the right of anyone else to practice competing faiths, I’m more concerned about our sitting Prime Minister invoking religion as a guiding principle for governance.

This feels like an entry-point for Christo-fascism.

“Mark Carney invokes Christian values as top court told religious beliefs don’t belong in government”

https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/mark-carney-invokes-christian-values-as-top-court-told-religious-beliefs-dont-belong-in-government/article_c0a9b0bd-41b0-4b0b-8320-f7d7b64402c7.html

Archive link:

https://archive.is/Gd6qT

#CDNPoli #Secularism #Christofascism

Mark Carney invokes Christian values as top court told religious beliefs don’t belong in government

On the same day Quebec vigorously defended its law promoting state neutrality and secularism in government, Prime Minister Mark Carney declared religious values can and should frame how politicians act.

Toronto Star
@crispius yeah… nothing about these stories is reassuring. I didn’t think carney could be more concerning but here we are. Quebec’s “secular” nonsense is straight up fascist BS.
@auxonic @crispius Yeah, I don't even mind that he quotes the bible at a prayer thingie. But the fact that he had to say that it needs to govern politics?? Isssh

@stephanie
Fuuuuuuck that.

We’ve been down that road and we’re not going back.

https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/kent-monkman/key-works/the-scream/

@auxonic

@crispius @stephanie related, Kent Monkman is a fucking hero.
@crispius @stephanie this is likely my favourite painting at the MBAM https://www.kentmonkmangallery.com/castor-du-rois
Castor Du Rois — Kent Monkman

Kent Monkman

@crispius

I have zero respect for anyone, but especially a politician, who starts spouting bullshit mythology as an attempt to justify anything.

Christopher Hitchens is still right

#ReligionPoisonsEverything

@crispius the specific bits he's referring to in his speech seem thematically relevant, but I'm also reticent about a PM invoking his own religious beliefs in any discussion of policy making or actions by public servants.

If we apply the Categorical Imperative and consider where this could lead, I think it would have been best for him not to have made that speech.

@crispius
Has Mark Carney ever spoken out about the international catholic pedophile ring? Asking about pedophile protection.
@NMBA @crispius In Canada there is no meaningful statistical difference between sex abuse by a priest or a teacher. I know the former people like to latch onto for their own reasons and it makes for great jokes and halloween costumes but.. in the town I grew up in, the molesters were a french teacher and a scout leader. The priest? He knocked up his secretary.
@mark @crispius
Got a ref for that equivalency?
@NMBA @crispius I'll try to find it, I had read something about this some time ago - it wasn't (and I'm not) defending the catholic church. I do recall though, that it was comparing male teachers and male clergy.

@mark @NMBA @crispius

Whataboutery is never a convincing defence.

@crispius
There has been nothing I can think of that's done more damage to my mental well-being than the Christian values of others. Politicians just need to do their jobs, not declare what religion we need to follow.