Overcoming "The Culture of Disbelief"
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article20053
- Author
- Ogilvie, M.H. (Margaret H.), 1948-
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Journal of the Church Law Association of Canada
- Date
- 1996 Winter
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Date
- 1996 Winter
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 1
- Page
- 5-25
- Notes
- Reprint of the text of remarks given to the YM-YWCA Friday Luncheon Group in Ottawa on 10 March 1995. Professor Ogilvie considers the implications of The Culture of Disbelief by Stephen Carter.
- Author begins with a look back to the feelings of fifth century Christians contemplating the fall of Rome and continues: "Against a similar historical backdrop, there is among Christians in Canada a rising tide of apprehension, anger, a sense of betrayal and alarm at the speed with which the formerly Christian fabric of Canadian society has been unravelled within the half-generation since 1982 and certainly within the generation since 1968. It may not be politically correct to observe that the sacking of Christian Canada has been largely accomplished by baptized Christians. Yet the Alarics in our legislatures and on our benches have demonstrated that laws can by as effective as fire and the sword in the destruction of earthly cities, and that persecution and oppression can be equally wrought by psychological as well as physical means". Very conservative in tone and argument.
- Subjects
- Church and state - Canada
- Christians - Canada
- Christian sociology - Canada
- Religion in the public schools - Canada
- Education - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Abortion - Canada
- Abortion - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Public welfare - Canada
- Taxation - Canada
- Taxation - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Location
- General Synod Archives