Movember Day 4, You Gotta Have Faith
November 5th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
Hey Canada, looks like we’re in the lead for donations so far in this year’s Movember. As of 11:21 PM, Canada has raised $6,913,890 of the total $17,768,559, not too shabby considering this is only day four. The website is updated hourly so it’s a great way to keep informed on the donations. http://ca.movember.com/momoney/
Movember day 4
There’s just one other thing I want to touch on briefly since it’s Friday and I’m ready for the weekend. Parliamentary secretary to the prime minister Dean Del Mastro made a trollish remark on Facebook last month regarding Justin Trudeau’s adherence to Catholicism, or purported lack of. The post stemmed from a Peterborough, ON Catholic school invited the Liberal MP to speak, for free, on the topic ‘young people showing leadership’.
Del Mastro’s prime candidate for speaker was none other than Jason Kenney, the Roman Catholic Immigration Minister. Now, Kenney is the kind of speaker who could put me to sleep whilst running away from a lion, I don’t know if I’d want him boring the children to death. Del Mastro considers himself to be an expert on piety and has likely been secretly studying Trudeau’s religious practices for years and has decided he is not living the tenets of Catholicism properly.
All I can say, is from the school’s point of view, Trudeau is a great decision as a speaker on youth leadership. He has been active in politics for a long time and is his party’s critic for youth and post-secondary education. All of these qualities made him the man for the job, not his adherence to the Catechism. So whether or not he lives up to one man’s idea of a “Good Catholic Boy” seems irrelevant to the situation.
It’s this type of religious intolerance, even within the same sect, that tears humanity apart. Deciding that one person is better suited to a position because of their beliefs is a failure to the people. This the the thought process of people in the Dark Ages, the Dark Ages sucked if you hadn’t heard before. It was dark, ignorant and full of religious zealots who all fought over the same God and there was no separation of Church and State. Thankfully we’re living in a post-Enlightenment world now so we should embrace that fact and leave religion out of it.
