The Canadian Council of Churches, of which the Anglican Church of Canada is a member, has published a resource to gently guide church members to vote for the right party in the forthcoming elections. Make that the left party. Actually, there is no major Canadian party that is far enough to the left to satisfy the nudging of this resource.
For example, to deal with ISIS, what is needed, we are told, is less military intervention and more diplomatic effort; after all, ISIS has responded to diplomacy so positively in the past:
Informed by deeply rooted beliefs in the sanctity of human life and dignity, the need to protect vulnerable people from atrocities, and concerned about the ineffectiveness of international military interventions in the region in the past, church leaders have urged the Prime Minister to strengthen diplomatic efforts, increase further humanitarian assistance, provide robust support for refugees, support civil society organizations, reduce the flow of arms and focus on the protection of the rule of law and respect for human rights.
It goes without saying that the “deeply rooted beliefs in the sanctity of human life” do not run deeply enough to recognise the sanctity of human life in the womb: there is no mention of that anywhere in the document.
I just don’t believe, however small-brained they are, that the people who wrote this document really really believe that ISIS accepts the “rule of law” (ie. non-Sharia law), and cares a fig about any “diplomacy” that the West may offer, or “human rights”.
Well I remember reading that there was once a fairly large group of people who wanted to negotiate with Hitler too. There seems to be no end of demand for snake oil.
From the WCC Offices of the post-Christian Caliphate now based in post-Calvin Geneve.