| An Argument for Public Funding of a Christian Education People who are convinced that they have a place to go when they die are much more likely to risk their lives for what they believe in then those who don’t. Where do you create people, not only willing to die for what they believe in, but also willing to kill to defend their beliefs or impose their beliefs on others? Churches, synagogues and mosques come to mind, but let’s not forget the importance of religious schools where captive, impressionable young minds are indoctrinated in the reveal truth of their parent’s religion. Could John Tory, the leader of the Ontario Conservative Party have been on to something when he promised religious schools equal access to taxpayers’ money if elected Premier of Ontario? Tory would have given them the money even if it was going to be used to invite impressionable young minds to deny the theory of evolution and encourage children not to associate with children who don't share their beliefs? “Christian private schools should be allowed to teach creationism if they receive public funding.” John Tory, Leader of the Ontario Conservative Party. September 5, 2007 5:51 O believers, do not take the Jews and the Christians as friends; some of them are friends of each other. Whoever of you takes them as friends is surely one of them. Allah indeed does not guide the wrongdoers. If John Tory had gotten his way, not only would he have made Ontario’s education system fair for all religions, even if the infusion of funds in religious schools would have come at the expense of the public school system, but he would also have levelled the battlefield in the fight for the hearts and minds of those who will do most of the dying in the defence of Western Civilization in the so-called Clash of Civilizations. If Ontario were to deny the Christian Churches (Protestant and Catholic) public funds as demanded by the New Democrats, it would be in effect handing to their mortal enemy a significant, gratuitous victory. For example, Saudi Arabia can easily finance, as its does to the tune of billions of dollars every years, madrassas (Islamic schools) the world over. To get the Saudi's cash the school must usually agree, according to Yaroslav Trofimov, author of Faith At War (Henry Holt, 2005) to teach a particular virulent brand of Islam (the same goes for Saudi funding for mosques), Wahabism, a branch of Islam that rejects any innovation occurring after the 3rd century of Islam. Wahabi theology also teaches that war against the unbelievers is a never-ending war until Islam is triumphant everywhere. Bin-Laden is a Wahabi Muslim. Christian and Jewish private schools are at a significant disadvantage in not having access to billions of petro-cash. If you don't believe in an after-life, which means you're in no hurry to leave this one, not funding Christian schools presents a real dilemma, considering that a Christian victory will not mean the end of Western Civilization but an Islamic victory will. If Christian schools are denied access to public funds while madrassas get Saudi subsidies, they might not turn out enough young men and women who are not afraid to meet the enemy on the battlefield, and kill and die for what they believe in and stop a return to the Dark Ages. It is faith-based children schools that begin the process of creating the committed soldiers that will risk their lives in the defence of their understanding of who, or what, God is. John Tory may have been correct in wanting to increase funding for all religious schools, even if that meant adding to Saudi funding of madrassas in Canada, with the fate of Western Civilization dependent on the outcome of the War of the Faiths. Bernard Payeur
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