What are “spiritual animators”, you may be wondering: Cartooning nuns? Creators of pious zombies? Bishops attempting to resuscitate the Anglican Church of Canada? None of the aforementioned; they are what you are left with when you eradicate Christianity from the schools.

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Catholic and Protestant instruction was removed from Quebec schools more than 15 years ago but nuns and priests are now replaced by “spiritual community animators,” some of whom lead students in meditation and rhythmic breathing sessions.

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QUEBEC “SPIRITUAL LIFE” GUIDELINES (SELECTED)
– To find one’s inner source, the thirst for life
– Situate one’s life in relation to time, space and the absolute
– Become familiar with interiority, silence and meditation
– To be aware of one’s inner life, one’s spiritual dimension

– Seek the meaning of life through others … “through nature, science, etc.”

QUEBEC RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY GUILDELINES
– Spiritual animators “serve as a defence against indoctrination and fundamentalist thinking”
– Religious activities are “not organized very often” and only in “exceptional” circumstances”
– Must have “educational usefulness”
– Religious activities can’t “impose ideas and practices” on students
– Can’t present a belief as “superior to another or necessary for self-fulfilment”
– Cannot be a “structured program whose specific goal is to develop a faith”