More than 50 Christian churches have been burned down or vandalized in Canada this year.

 

St George's Coptic Christian Church in Surrey, British Columbia. Toronto Sun.

More than 50 Christian churches have been burned down or vandalized in Canada this year. Toronto Sun. The Churches have come under attack after the alleged discovery of unmarked graves in Kamloops British Columbia. Canada protects religious freedom but has largely ignored the attacks on the Christian community in favor of the Jewish and Muslim community. Some of the churches were ones that served the Native American community. Canadian politicians and media have downplayed the attacks to the point that CTV News censored the identity of one of the attackers. 

My Comment:

I've dismissed the "mass graves" scandal as an obvious fake news story. These schools were probably imperialistic in nature but that's about the only thing to complain about. I am sure that abuse occurred but name a school where that didn't happen, especially during this time period. It is no surprise that children died in large numbers due to disease and other problems on the frontier before modern medicine. People tend to vastly underestimate the child mortality rate which is enough to explain the deaths. Plus, I am guessing that many of these graves are the result of various pandemics, with the Spanish Flu being the most obvious source of the dead. That can hardly be blamed on Christianity, but that hasn't stopped people. 

I also have to note that I haven't actually seen any pictures of any bodies. From what I understand the bodies were discovered via non-excavation archeology techniques. Without those bodies it's unclear if anything actually happened or even where the bodies came from. 

With that being said, the attacks on Churches in Canada is a major story that is basically being ignored by everyone. I have been wanting to write about this for weeks now but the only sources have been opinion pieces like this one. At some point though I had to use what was available. 

I think there is an obvious double standard here. If even one Mosque or Synagogue was burned down it would be international news for weeks. That doesn't mean that it shouldn't be news if a Mosque or a Synagogue, but if a Church is destroyed it should be a bigger deal. 

But it's clear that the Canadian government and Media doesn't care. They are very clearly a far left government and my guess they see burning churches as a solution, not a problem. By their standard the grievances of Native Americans (or First Nations in Canadian parlance), real and imagined, justifies any action even though this entire issue is more than 100 years old. 

Blaming people for things their religious or ethnic group did (or were accused of doing) under previous generations is utterly disgusting but it is becoming more and more common. It's also patently ridiculous because if you go back far enough you find skeletons in everyone's closet. As a student of Archeology (I took many classes in it once considered majoring in it, though I found the job prospects depressing) I know that pre-Columbian North America was just as violent and terrible as every other region on Earth.