The governments in Canada have taken the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Canadian Constitution, and the Canadian Bill of Rights, and have turned them all into political toilet paper to be flushed down the government toilets. As governments in Canada have made their demands on the population, controlling their movements, where they can go, for what reasons, and other abuses of power, they have destroyed the community in general and the church community, the education communities and the service club communities.
Once governments have felt the winds of authoritative power on their faces, they will not want to give up that power anytime soon. What the governments in Canada did not expect however, was that the loudest voices of opposition does not come from the anti-mask groups, nor the anti-lockdown groups. The loudest voices have come and are coming from church leaders. It has been the church leaders down through the ages that have stood up against governments of all sorts and against the abuses caused and acted upon by the governments in silencing all opposition.
The church has stood up to governments on civil abuses of powers and when the church has erred in their ways they have done everything possible to correct their errors. When the church has stood up for what is right and condemning what is wrong, they have made sure the governments that they will not be silenced.
While many main stream and evangelical churches have quietly found other ways to get their messages of hope out to their congregations, there are those who decided to stand up and say what is wrong. In this case they have stood up to the governments in Canada and have identified the direction of the the governments as authoritative political equivalents of fascism and communism governments where it is more important to control the population.
When the Nazi government in Germany decided to control the church, they effectively "Nazified" the church so it would not be in the way of party politics. Meanwhile in Russia the communists simple executed church leaders and destroyed the buildings. The persecution of the church can be done in many ways, including what the present governments in Canada have been doing.
In Germany the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer publicly challenged Adolf Hitler. In the midst of the Nazification of the German church, Dietrich Bonhoeffer established the "Confessing Church" to bring the congregations back to being the church both spiritually and physically. He was later executed by the government.
In Canada the governments are engaged in vilifying the church leaders who challenge their authoritarian controls. They have not only fined these leaders, but have imprisoned them. If this was done in any other country, many Canadians would stood up and named the injustice for what it is -- the persecution of the church. And while the religious moral light in dimming in Canada, and the various communities are being destroyed by the people's very own governments, there are leaders who are calling out these governments that have decided to persecute the church using the courts and the media to further control and destroy the church community and control the attitudes of the population.
Evan though many churches do not want to get involved, there are those of the people who have come to the conclusion that the governments in Canada have gone too far. In Ontario the government has lost the people. They will be out of their homes and going to the cottage, to parks, to trailer and camping parks. They will defy the stay at home order, for even at the present time the large percentage of the Ontario population have full intension of thumbing their noses at the Ontario government.
They have seen the authoritarian rule of the government. They have seen friends and themselves charged and fined for violations of the governments dictatorship orders. If this pandemic is ever over, which I would be very doubtful, the governments will not be so quick to maintain their abilities to control the population. While the federal government is engaged in their desire to the communist liberal party, the provincial governments are set on controls in place that will enshrine their fascism and Nazification of their respective provinces.
The pandemic has become political. It will never end.
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