DID YOu go to church
today? Probably not. I
didn’t, either. I only go for
weddings and funerals, and
these days a lot of people
don’t even bother to get —

-... married or buried by the
~,, church.

In the Western world religion is is
becoming irrelevant and the

"chances are that your children are

~ growing up to be little heathens.
‘They might even become witches
‘ or go shaking and shambling along

a _ with the Hairless Krishnas- Or go °

for the Grunge Look..
It’s a pity, but God died years
« -) ago, killed off in large measure by
_ the churches themselves,
” “The Anglicans have J just given
-. Him another kick.
“yee The hymn Onward Christian :
“Soldiers has been given the bum’s
7 ‘tush, together with other politically
-- incorrect ditties. Too militant, you,
“knew, But that fits in nicely with
the: West Van parson who didn't * -
want a flag- and-medal funeral fora
deceased veteran a few years ago. .
‘A disgusted reader sent me a

_»_ news clipping of the Christian

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" Lesbian Soldiers.

' Backward Lesbian Soldiers” :

2 might have been a better way of.

: ~ putting i it, considering i in which .
direction ‘the ‘Anglicans, the United
Church ‘and others are going.

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‘Still sung?, Probably not. Too sexist.
; le are iow a secular society. |

chitch, yet we are also hypocrites
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North Vancouver, was jailed a'total :

of. 18 months and had his driver's

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In 1991, 81% of us did so. Yet
the country is full of empty pews.

The reasons are not hard to find.
There has been a virtual war on the
religion. So don’t ask the kids what
the Bible says about anything. ,
because they are not likely to know.

in the schools, the verbal thun-
der of the King James Bible is .

_Tarely heard, even as literature. We

“mustn't offend other religions. So-

‘we must ignore our own.. :
It’s the mark of a civilization i in’ ;

decline.
* The rot is often at the top! “Just

‘s look at the headlines. “Clerics push
for acceptance of same- “SEX rights :
‘ measure.’

In that case the former. i)

— Archbishop Ted Scott — was all

‘in favor of the NDP pian for giving
~ Marriage rights to homosexuals in’, ~“
‘Ontario. So was Bruce McLeod, 2... :
* former moderator of the United - 1

Church of Canada.
Those worthies and many others

like them say they don’t want to’

push homosexuals and lesbians.

: away from the church. It doesn’ t

o Matthew Keith Titian? 28, “of

North. Vancouver, was jailed .14
days ‘and had his driver's licence

suspended for -12°months after he -

picaded guilty to having .a bldod-
alcohol level’ greater than’.08..

rimate oO
_of the Anglican Church of Canada’

seem to occur to them that by tak-
ing that attitude they are pushing
heterosexuals away. Gain one, lose
10.

Canadian churches are not alone
in their madness. Last month there
was a front-page headline in the
U.K.’s Sunday Telegraph that read:

“Witcheraft row over Anglican
priest in pagan sex rite.”

The lead of the story read:

“A Communion service involv-
ing symbolic sex but no mention of

~ Christ is to be celebrated by a
pagan. priestess and a Church of
England vicar today as part of an
‘inter-faith’ forum.”

* The story told how a three-day

a workshop for Christians and pagans
in Wiltshire was intended to honor
what the two major faiths held i in
common.

Here, as there, a price has to be.
paid for idiocy. ;

“$1 million deficit forces
Anglican church to make cuts,”

read the headline over a story out
J .

5

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~ now the Anglican Church in -

- Then there was the pastor in
Niagara who banned Christmas car-
ols from his children’s programs to
avoid offending non-Christians,

There's something to.be said for...

the Pope. He doesn’t give an inch.
- No moral relativism for him.

British writer Paul Johnson has
put it this way: ..

“As the Pope gazes sadly about
the world today, he notes that unre-"
strained liberalism, no less than .
Nazism and Communism, is ulti-
mately a‘ huge assault on the well-
being of mankind.” ~

Here endeth the lesson.

of Winnipeg.

Commenting on his church's
declining numbers, Archbishop
Percy O” Driscoll of Ontario has
stated that two generations from

Canada may vanish. - °.

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