Comments on: Note to Canadian Brothers: Steadfastness required [I Cor 15]

By: Brown

Wed, 21 Oct 2015 19:43:42 +0000

I hear today the battle against IS is being abandoned and the nice Canadian government is going to be bringing some of them, whoops, I mean refugees, to Canada.

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By: Will S.

Wed, 21 Oct 2015 13:41:19 +0000

I greatly prefer the Red Ensign to the current Canadian flag; it indeed is more classy, and it acknowledges our heritage.

Agreed; they always assert that “If you don’t vote, you don’t have a right to complain.”

But on what logical, rational basis can one argue that non-voters have no right to complain, anyway, just because they don’t vote? We have freedom of speech and freedom of opinions, and my right to complain is part and parcel of that, whether or not I participate in the charade of the status quo. And I have noticed that there are many people who go out and vote, then when a party OTHER than the one they voted for gets in, and does what it says it would do, they STILL complain, even though they didn’t vote FOR that party, which is only doing what it said it would do, which is actually noble and honourable in itself, whether or not one agrees with the particular policy. If they reserve the right to exercise their freedom of speech and complain about a party they didn’t vote for, why can’t I, if I chose to do so? The only difference is, I’m voting for nobody.

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By: Will S.

Wed, 21 Oct 2015 13:33:51 +0000

Agreed.

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By: pukeko

Wed, 21 Oct 2015 07:29:13 +0000

Well, I vote. Because there are some parties in NZ that only stink mildly. In Canada, they all Stink.

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By: Chris Gale

Wed, 21 Oct 2015 06:27:28 +0000

The choices you have in Canada range from appalling to merely bad.

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By: Brown

Wed, 21 Oct 2015 06:09:06 +0000

I didn’t know what the old Canadian flag looked like until the other day. Its classy.

I find it amusing that the people who vote and eventually hate what they voted for tell people that don’t vote (because the non voters think the system or choices suck) that they can’t complain about what they didn’t vote for.

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By: Will S.

Wed, 21 Oct 2015 05:59:14 +0000

Once again, I didn’t vote. No point.

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By: pukeko

Wed, 21 Oct 2015 00:29:51 +0000

Find a crunchy bunch of Calvinists. Unfortunately, they are not everywhere. The Churchians love too much the spirit of the age.

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By: Cecil Henry

Wed, 21 Oct 2015 00:18:10 +0000

‘Canada’ is now just nothing– an empty, exploited shibboleth:

Government regulation and coercion in Canada is just insane. Why work??? WE have communism. The government control wages and incomes AFTER the fact with taxation. The government takes 50% of everything. If you work hard then it is simply given to someone else by force.

Democracy has become one vote and 2 minutes of input every four years, followed by government fiat on 10,000 decisions to tax, steal and coerce everything from you for next 4 years–with state force to back it up.

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By: Anon

Tue, 20 Oct 2015 23:59:37 +0000

Regrettably I think the problem is not limited to the secular desire to see Christianity gone. My local has increasingly wandered off down the Pentecostal path and the style and content has begun to rankle a bit. Most of the elders who should know about the core of the orthodox faith seem staggeringly ignorant of the fundamental beliefs needing to be held. Having queried this (quietly and in a completely non confrontational way) I now feel the cold wind of rejection blowing my way. How do supposed visions and prophecy (generally flimsy “mean anything” or plain wrong) help the weak who cling to faith in the face of persecution. Alas, what is one to do in the face of those seeking an experience limited to dodgy signs and wonders because they do not really know the living God? There seems little leadership and teaching by people who know what they are talking about today.

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