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October 24, 2023

The State Wants God Out Of Our Lives !

OCTOBER 22, 2023 / BRIANPECKFORD
How else to explain what is going on?
This Remembrance Day issue just brings it all to the fore in a dramatic way.
Epoch Times Reports :
The Department of National Defence has confirmed that chaplains can’t use the word “God” during official ceremonies such as Remembrance Day.
This follows Defence Minister Bill Blair’s dismissal as “misinformation” assertions by the Conservatives that military chaplains are being prohibited from saying prayers at Remembrance Day ceremonies.
In mandatory military ceremonies, “chaplains should not use the word ‘God’ or other references to a higher power such as ‘Heavenly Father,’” Department of National Defence (DND) spokesperson Derek Abma told The Epoch Times in an Oct. 20 statement.’
The article goes on to quote the Department of Defence spokesman of referring to a Supreme Court of Canada Decision of 2015 concerning religious neutrality .
https://peckford42.wordpress.com/2023/10/22/the-state-wants-god-out-of-our-lives/

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