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THE NOW WORD ON MASS READINGS
for Saturday of the First Week of Lent, February 28th, 2015<\/p>\n

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I <\/strong>listened to Canada’s state radio broadcaster, the CBC, on the ride home last night. The host of the show interviewed “astonished” guests who could not believe that a Canadian Member of Parliament admitted to “not believing in evolution” (which usually means that one believes that creation came into existence by God, not aliens or the implausible\u00a0odds atheists have put their faith in). The guests went on to highlight their unflinching devotion to not only evolution but global warming, vaccinations, abortion, and gay marriage \u2014including the “Christian” on the panel. “Anyone who questions the\u00a0science really is not fit for public office,” said one guest to that effect.<\/p>\n

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It was a chilling\u00a0display of the soft totalitarianism that is changing the face of not only Canada, but the entire world, one country at a time. I mean, there are scientists who, based on excellent published research, question the science of global warming, the theories of evolution, the wisdom of vaccinations, the morality of abortion, and the experiment of gay marriage. But you see, what these talk show guests were really saying is that there is no room for anyone who disagrees with them.<\/em> Clearly, anyone who does is seemingly deranged and should be kept from the public for the common good.\u00a0[1]<\/sup><\/a>cf.\u00a0Tolerance?<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span>