Category: Secularism

Twilight of the Golden Calf: A Denouement of the Dominant

March 25, 2020 Critical Links

By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Canadian society, since its inception, has placed faith-based organizations or religious institutions on a privileged or special pedestal, where the emphasis existed on the dominant Christian religion and the domineering denomination of Roman Catholicism followed by Protestantism. If you’re looking to question this dominant position and fundamental tenets in a critical…

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Taiwan, the Asia Pioneer, Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage

February 11, 2020 Critical Links

By Scott Douglas Jacobsen The movement for human rights continues in an asynchronous and bumpy progression forward more than backward. In this progression, we can see regional and national differences. Some regions regress while others progress; same for nations. One of the more noteworthy cases is the increase in equal rights for the LGBTQ community….

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Will You Help Omer?

February 11, 2020January 24, 2021 Critical Links

By Sandra Dunham “Omer” (a pseudonym) can hardly wait to get to Canada. He is most excited about living where freedom of expression is a right. Omer has been in hiding, first in Pakistan and now in Nepal, since 2017. While in hiding, Omer has spent his free time reading and continuing his activism by…

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January 21, 2020January 24, 2021 info 1 Comment

Omer is a 32-year-old Pakistani citizen ﬂeeing religious persecution

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BC Atheist Beats Mandatory AA

January 6, 2020 Critical Links

By Leslie Rosenblood In the July 2019 edition of Critical Links , we told you about Byron Wood, an atheist nurse and alcoholic. He wanted to attend a rehabilitation program that was non-theistic in nature. His union did not provide one, and when he did not complete the Alcoholics Anonymous program because he refused to turn his…

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