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A conservative OPINION blog --with bite. OPINION by Joel Johannesen.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Left-wing columnist Shelley Fralic attempts glib atheist redefinition of Thanksgiving

Written by Joel Johannesen on Tuesday October 12 2010 at 12:27 PM
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The liberals’ Vancouver Sun columnist Shelley Fralic writes a list of things we should be thankful for at Thanksgiving (she does this on Tuesday, mind you, the day after Thanksgiving.  Not only has the lamestream media dropped all Shelley Fralic pretends there is no heaven, no God, no nuttin except oneselfpretense of objectivity, but now they don’t even pretend to be timely in their dispatches.  I guess that’s one of the privileges of being a former Executive Editor of the paper, as Fralic is. 

Bear her position at the paper in mind as we see where she joins so many other progressives and atheists in her attempt to redefine yet another vestige of Canadian tradition and its occasional and very proper nod to its Judeo-Christian roots, which gave our country its very meaning and purpose.  It’s something so many progressives seem so bent on eliminating, slowly over time.  By doing things like this in major newspapers. 

This time, as in the case of their redefinition of marriage to clear way for gay ‘marriage’, and in their effort to change Christmas into “happy-tree fest” or some other such genius anti-Christian name,  it appears Thanksgiving will also gradually be assigned a new meaning — one which is more amenable to their progressive, and apparently atheist world view. 

Also bear in mind this fact:  Thanksgiving, in Canada, is officially, by government decree (and God knows progressives bow to the power and authority and glory of the state), a day to thank God, quite specifically. 

Thanksgiving in Canada, officially speaking, and by official proclamation in Canada’s Parliament (that’s the state!), on January 31, 1957 is:

“A day of general Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the
bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed.”

Also see my blog entry — posted prior to Thanksgiving, instead of after Thanksgiving)

But not to Fralic.  Her list of things we ought to be thankful for and grateful for specifically and actually emphatically EXCLUDES God, claiming there is no such thing, actually, but does includes this gem: 

Grateful that while you worship in no organized faith, you find spirituality in honesty and integrity and kindness, a self-prescribed catechism that believes life is an organic ebb and flow and that the only supreme being is oneself, and that there is no there, no salvation, no heaven, no hell, and if you wake up in the morning that means you’ve been given one more day and that’s all you can ask.

“...the only supreme being is oneself…”
“...there is no heaven…”

Wow.  What is she?  A Beatle?

At least she didn’t say the only supreme being is “the government”, although 364 days per year, I’ll wager that’s what she thinks.

Let’s sing!

John Lennon. Peace, man.

Imagine…
Imagine there’s no Heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us ...

Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too ...

I hope someday you’ll join us ....

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