The Current: not quite au courant
May 11, 2010 8:37 am Canadian Politics, ChristianityThis morning I believe I have found a worthy successor to Linda McQuaig’s mantle as Canada’s weedy and not very bright leftist. Marci McDonald, who has just scribbled the tome The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada, regaled listeners with a conspiracy theory marked by the same depth of research as those who are convinced the moon landings were faked by NASA.
Am I exaggerating? Consider these cubic zirconia-like gems of wisdom:
How was Stephen Harper transformed into a millenialist Protestant fundamentalist? Preston Manning encouraged him to read C.S. Lewis and Malcolm Muggeridge.
- Obviously reading the contemplations of Anglo Catholics is the gateway drug to eschatological fanaticism. And Khalil Gibran’s “The Prophet” will set you on the path to jihadism.
Christian activists look to the growth of the Fraser Institute as a model for research and advocacy. But the media no longer calls the Fraser Institute “extreme right-wing”. So Christian activists are working under stealth.
- Because it is inconceivable that the Fraser Institute could have somehow developed a reputation for policy analysis over the course of years. And only Marci McDonald has remained immune to Michael Fraser’s use of The Voice as taught to him by the Bene Gesserit Order.
The naming of Canada can be attributed to fundamentalist biblical prophecy.
- The Dominion of Canada and the motto “A mari usque ad mare? The work of notorious end-of-days advocate Sir Samuel Leonard Tiley. Or maybe not quite .
Clearly “The Current” is degenerating into the “Coast to Coast AM” for the brie and chardonnay set.
UPDATE
The audio is now available.
AND MORE
If McDonald can’t convince a jazz-loving cosmopolitan journo like Paul Wells, then there is a small ray of hope for the chattering classes.
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Glendronach
duggan's dew :
Date: May 11, 2010 @ 10:33 AM
I listened to some of that appalling drivel. Apparently, all should fear Christians because Ronald Reagan was elected president. The United Church was not a strong enough intoxicant for Stephen Harper – Preston Manning introduced him to the hard stuff. And on and on and on. The sound of those two metro Toronto chic leftists whining about Tories in the same breathy tones they would use to discuss errant husbands was quite literally disgusting.
Joe :
Date: May 11, 2010 @ 11:40 AM
I didn’t have the misfortune of listening to what you describe a drivel so I won’t go there but from the one snippet you posted I wonder if the ‘author’ even knows what a millenialist is? Now I’ve been what most secularists would call a fundamentalist Christian for over 30 years although most Christians would not call me a fundamentalist. I have read a good deal of material on the Pre-millenialist, A-millenialist and post millenialist positions and some of my favourite modern Christian authors are Muggeridge and Lewis. For the life of me I can’t think of even once in their writings where Malcolm and Clive discuss the end times in any more than passing reference. Like most well balanced Christians the End Times are simply an event that will occur when it occurs. Just as we had no say over the beginning we shall have no say over the end. Discussions on dates times signs etc belong to the fringe elements for as Jesus said when asked, “Only the Father knows”.
Frances :
Date: May 11, 2010 @ 12:11 PM
I thought the title ‘Dominion’ came from the Brits, specificially the then monarch, to describe these new parts of the Empire. It does, agreed, have a Biblical origin, but Church of England is hardly fundamentalist.
real conservative :
Date: May 11, 2010 @ 2:29 PM
Ah Linda, I remember my polysci days and if you wanted an ‘A’ just include her in your tileted research. Yeah commies hang together don’t they. I’m reading a book now written by an expert occultist who rips to shreds both christianity and the evolutionist crowd as he calls them. I find his complaints against Christianity to be mild vs those against the new age crowd.
JL :
Date: May 12, 2010 @ 2:48 PM
I had a university polisci prof who was ultra left-wing and he forced us to review McQuaig’s Holding the Bully’s Coat for a Canada-US relations course. I trashed it using reasoned arguments and got the worst mark I’ve ever received on any assignment.
Hard to believe anyone could surpass her, but then i haven’t read this one yet.
Vast plot exposed: Christians seek to preserve Canada | Barrel Strength :
Date: May 13, 2010 @ 10:11 AM
[...] of a very narrow mind encountering people who do not agree with her, and recoiling in shock . Glendronach nailed it a few days ago. Marci McDonald manifests the curious and increasing phenomenon of the left bigot; [...]