The Ontario Orange Order on Parade in 2008

A collage of pictures from the three Orange parades in the Canadian province of Ontario during the summer of 2008.

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[Islandretreat]

Devil in the Vatican - New World Order

watch?v=o6Itxks7SZo

[JPLFINN]

I believe your order is considering action against UUP leader for attending the funeral of a catholic NI Police officer killed by RIRA

YOU PEOPLE BELONG IN THE STONE AGE

[GaraGambini]

Hands across the water, No Surrender!

[greg69lowry]

great to see our culture and heritage across the globe

[jrcasselman]

This is not the same thing as discriminating against the members of these faiths. Mind you there are probably many people of these faiths who disagree with the views espoused by their clergy.

[jrcasselman]

I also disagree with any religion that practices any kind of narrow mindedness. Examples include the Sikhs not wanting to use tables for communal meals, Orthodox Christianity not allowing guide dogs in the churches, Orthodox Judaism not allowing the use of a Braille version of the Torah at a Bar/Bat Mitzvah and so forth.

[jrcasselman]

I also dislike the views espoused by fundamentalists regarding sex education and contraception, evolution, the Big Bang, same-sex marriage, equating Christianity with right-wing politics (see the film Jesus Camp) and so forth.

[jrcasselman]

Now I am also critical of views espoused by Protestant faiths. One thing I find particularly disgusting is these Purity Balls underway in the US. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against young people taking an oath to remain celibate until married (providing that they can keep such a promise). But for a young woman to swear her virginity to her father takes this to a whole new level, almost a form of incest.

[jrcasselman]

At the same time, there are some aspects of Catholicism that I do admire. Namely, its views on science. Unlike Protestant fundamentalists, Rome has accepted the theories of the Big Bang and evolution, using them to justify the existence of God and in so doing, making god more complex than described by the Bible. At least they learned their lessons from their wrongful conviction of Galileo.

[jrcasselman]

Further, I am convinced that John Paul I was internally assassinated. He was more open to birth control, even going so far as to say “God does not always provide”; was more sympathetic to homosexuality; was going to investigate the actions of the Vatican Bank, and probably would have done something regarding the actions of priests who sexually abused children.