[Buddha-l] Canada cancels non-Christian prison chaplaincies

[Gad Horowitz]

Read your post again Richard Hayes.  You certainly implied (at the very
least) some special status of Anglicanism in the mind of our Prime Minister.
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More than a mere suggestion.  It would be nice if you read tyour own writing
before correcting other's corrections. And laziness is a virtue I wish I had
more of--it wqould protect me from irritating prima donnas and incurring
their sneers


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[mailto:buddha-l-bounces at mailman.swcp.com] On Behalf Of Richard Hayes
Sent: October 10, 2012 9:47 AM
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Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Canada cancels non-Christian prison chaplaincies

On Oct 9, 2012, at 11:12 , Gad Horowitz <horowitz at CHASS.UTORONTO.CA> wrote:

> It's nice to get your facts right.  The Anglican church is not 
> established here in Canada.  No church is.

That is my understanding. I think if you will look carefully at what I
wrote, there was no suggestion that the Anglican Church is the established
church of Canada. It's nice to read what people have written before
correcting them.

> Most of the Christian chaplains are
> probably Roman Catholic and United Church of Canada, a merger of 
> Presbyterians Methodists and one other (I forget).

The UCC was a merger of some Presbyterians, some Methodists, some Baptists
and some Congregationalists. In all of those denominations, there were some
churches who wished to remain separate from the merger, so there are still
Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist and Congregationalist churches. Those who
wished to remain separate were called, etymologically enough, separatists.
So Canada has two kinds of separatists: Protestants who did not wish to join
the United Church of Canada, and Québecois(e) who do not wish to be part of
Canada.

>  You should LOOVE the UCC
> because they just signed on to the boycott of Israeli settlement products.

Good for them. That is just the sort of stand the United Church of Canada is
well known for taking. As you perhaps know, I used to be in the Faculty of
Religious Studies at McGill University, which trains people for UCC
ordination (as well as Anglican and Presbyterian ordination). My UCC friends
used to assure me that the United Church of Canada is by far the most
liberal religious body in North America. 

> You got other facts wrong, DOCTOR Hayes, but I can't be bothered.

More's the pity. When there are errors to be corrected, laziness is no
virtue.

Richard Hayes

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