Is there religious tolerance in Canada? What do you think of this article?

I wouldn't judge all of Canada, by the actions of a few bigoted beauty pageant officials.

From what I have understood, this has created plenty of outrage in Canada.

Wiccans encounter much discrimination in the US, and it generates very little outrage.

Religious Tolerance In Canada

I would say there definitely is tolerance in Canada. There is were I live anyway. I here all these stories of atheists in the states being discriminated against, and that never happens in Canada. I actually don't know any religious people. I'm sure some believe in God, but none I know go to church or anything.

Sure there's religious tolerance, we in Canada have the benefit of the best religious tolerance in the world. You can't get more religions living peacefully together while not having to give up their traditions than in Canada.

I'm a born-again, Spirit-Baptised Orthodox Gnostic Christian Universalist, who reads of occult knowledge and science for interest purposes and not for practice, and no one bothers me. :)

I think the intolerance is more from the network that airs the pageant than the country

"It’s intolerant to say that Jesus is the only way to God!"

Jesus is the One who said that He is the only way to the Father. For Christians to say that there are other ways to find peace with God is to bear false testimony. In one sweeping statement, Jesus discards all other religions as a means of finding forgiveness of sins. This agrees with other Scriptures: "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is no other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved" (Acts 4:12), and "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" (1 Timothy 2:5).

"Judge not lest you be judged. You therefore have no right to judge me when it comes to my sins!"

The world often takes this verse out of context and uses it to accuse Christians of being "judgmental" when they speak of sin. In the context of the verse Jesus is telling His disciples not to judge one another, something the Bible condemns (Romans 14:10; James 4:11). In Luke 6:41,42 He speaks of seeing a speck in a brother’s eye. In John 7:24 He said, "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment." If someone steals, lies, commits adultery or murder, etc., the Christian can make a (righteous) moral judgment and say that the actions were morally wrong, and that these sins will have eternal consequences. Chuck Colson said, "True tolerance is not a total lack of judgment. It’s knowing what should be tolerated—and refusing to tolerate that which shouldn’t."

"You shouldn’t talk about sin because Jesus didn’t condemn anybody. He was always loving and kind."

Jesus did indeed condemn some people for their sin. In Matthew 23 He called the religious leaders "hypocrites" seven times. He told them that they were "blind fools," children of hell, full of hypocrisy and sin. He climaxed His sermon by saying, "You serpents, you generation of vipers, how shall you escape the damnation of hell?" (v. 33). He then warned that He would say to the wicked, "Depart from Me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels" (Matthew 25:41).

God bless you.

Many people do not consider wiccan beliefs to constitute a religion. Hey, it's their pageant; they can do what they want, can't they?

Asked if her group is a religious one, Murray replied, "We adhere to God's principles. We're God-fearing. I wouldn't say we're religious."

HA HA HA you can always spot the born-again nutters - they always claim not to be religious.

ouch. well, from this article i would say there is not much religious tolerance. but........i would hate to put a label on all of canada because of one article. i would venture to guess that this attitude exists in more places than we would like. peace.

These kinds of bigoted fruitcakes are all around us. Most of the time their nonsense just doesn't make it into the papers.

Love and blessings Don