Dear Editor:
Liberal Democrats concerned that God is too often mentioned here should move to Canada where socialism is well established. There is no need to argue with religious conservatives here in the United States about showing “In God we Trust” on our currency, the display of the Ten Commandments on public buildings or standing for the Pledge of Allegiance.
In Quebec, attendance in Catholic churches is down dramatically. Where in the 1950s, 95 percent of the population went to Mass, only 5 percent do so today; 527 churches in Quebec have been closed/transformed. The State (provider of all good things) is now “God” in Quebec.
And in China, as of this year, no member of the Communist Party of China may have any personal religious beliefs. Ninety million members of the Party must disavow and refuse to support any Muslim, Buddhist, Taoist, Christian, etc. activity. Again the State is God.
Probably this is what Obama was striving for when he announced in a speech in Turkey in 2009 that “while we have a very large Christian population — we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.” His values were never defined.
Stuart Deans
Lockwood
