A I Canadian society has come under sustained anti-Christian influence and leadership over the past 50 years.

II Secular humanism is the doctrine that puts man and his desires at the centre

of things. This view has captured our public institutions of law, government, education and media although we are 72% Christians, 4% other faiths and 12% secular humanists.

III Public policy is based on anti-Christian principles such as evolution, relativism, materialism and the results of public opinion polling.

IV The Christian, that is you and me, find ourselves frustrated in our attempt to express the lordship of Christ and his principles as the basis for life in the public sphere. Religion belongs in the private sphere of church and home we are told.

V Yet the present dominant ideology, secular humanism, is also a religion in that it speaks to the underlying principles and goals of human life in society.

VI Secular humanism is also a most intolerant religion and a threat to all the faith communities of this country, be they Jewish, Sikh, Muslim or Christian.

B What are some of the concrete results of the dominance of secular humanism in Canadian society over the past 30 to 40 years? As we consider the negative changes in our society, we are reminded of the words of

I The lack of fiscal integrity under Trudeau and Mulroney has led to a national debt of $600 billion. Today the federal politicians are trying to decide how to spend a federal current account surplus of $17 billion. Employment insurance premiums go into general revenue and without them there would be no surplus. We would indeed still have a large deficit if it were not for lower interest rates on government borrowing over the past few years. Rates now are rising and this will wipe out Chretien's paper surplus in a hurry. Canada's Baptist P. M., John Diefenbaker spent a weekend in New York in the late 50's. Out of pocket expenses for he and his wife totaled a little over $5.00!

II The striking down of the Lord's Day Act has caused many Canadians in retail and transportation industries to lose the Sabbath as a day of worship, rest and family togetherness, such as real estate.

III The decriminalization of homosexual behavior has encouraged development of unnatural, unhealthy and immoral lifestyles. Ron Gray has said: "There is a plan to make you accept, like, rather to love, more than that, to celebrate homosexuality," and therefore of a conscientious refusal to proclaim a so called gay pride event, five mayors of Canadian cities have been penalized.

IV Acceptance and growth of gambling as a means to raise state revenues acts as a regressive or heavier tax on the poor who tend to buy lottery tickets more than others.

V The cruel and unnatural death, nay, the holocaust of 2,100,000 Canadian children since abortion was legalized in 1969.

VI The growing debate to allow euthanasia of the handicapped and elderly. Euthanasia is not a good death, a misnomer indeed!

VII Canada now has a criminal justice system that is more criminal than justice. Capital punishment is abolished. Our prison system makes bad men worse. There is a lack of emphasis on reconciliation and restitution between offender and victim.

VIII We have an economic system that reduces taxes for those best able to afford them at the expense of the poor, the physically and mentally handicapped and the homeless - and at the expense of the environment.

IX Consider external affairs. Canada trades with nations that oppress religious and ethnic minorities, such as China, Indonesia and Pakistan. There countries often use slave labour to produce cheap goods and put Canadian workers out of a job. Countries like Sudan receive Canadian foreign aid (and in the case of Sudan, oil revenues from a Canadian company) and enslave and seek to forcibly convert thousand of their christian subjects.

X What about Canada's health system? We have a bloated medical establishment that feeds from the public purse, recognizes only drugs and surgery as a means of cure and scorns alternative drug-free therapies such as herbalism, homeopathy and chiropractic.

XI Military budgets have been cut to the point where the families of some Canadian soldiers depend on food banks. At the same time our Liberal government has recently committed itself to pay $20,000 toward the cost of sex change operations for military personnel.

XII Our federal political system has degenerated into a cynical struggle to gain and retain power. We have governments and political parties that think only in the short term, that is what will win me reelection, when so many of our problems require long term solutions.