I don't want to fund a god's plan, do you?

If someone wants to financially support and help propagate a myth along with its narrow ideology in the name of a mythic creature, hey, that’s their right.  But this should not come out of the tax dollars of people who may not feel the same way: those who believe in a completely different mythos, atheists, or even those who share similar beliefs but are opposed to the goals of the group.

Seems Vic Toews doesn’t agree.  At least when it comes to Youth For Christ, a religious group passing itself off as a youth centre for troubled kids.

Their own mission statement makes it very clear that their agenda is a religious one, extending to mixing church and state.

With a focus on junior and senior high school ministries, YFC Canada aims to take the gospel to the youth of the nation and trust God to surface leaders for the future who can become part of His plan for our nation.

God has a plan for our nation, does he?  But he needs our tax dollars to help indoctrinate vulnerable youth to accomplish it?  Mm-hmmm...

This group doesn’t just want to take the gospel to the kiddies, it is actively targeting what it views as vulnerable groups.

Strategy - ...Expanding chapter ministries: "YFC will boldly move into areas where we do not now exist, both geographically and culturally. The aboriginal youth community is a prime area for development."

Yeppers.  Boldly braving hostile lands  and dangerous cultures.  

I find it more than a little obscene that the very religion that abused aboriginals and committed cultural genocide  now seeks to use them to suppress the rights of all Canadians by imposing their religiously driven morality on all citizens through changing our laws according to a two thousand year old book written by several patriarchal types and loosely interpreted by whoever happens to claim to have insight into the will of a non-existent being.  Whew!  Long sentence, yes, but that happens when you try to give clarity to something as nonsensical as a god’s will.

We are committed to a journey of faith fully trusting our Lord to supply the resources and strategies to impact the youth of Canada.

I have trouble believing that this group faithfully trusts their lord to supply resources - for two reasons: first off, I don’t believe in gods.

Secondly: I apparently jabbered in my sleep last night, and what one of my co-pilots took to be nonsense must have been in fact, a magic spell because some god or other monster (which I don’t believe in) later directed me to read this article  and made me read these very lines:

Toews said Youth For Christ's evangelism was irrelevant to the funding process, although CBC reports one of the group's directors contributed to his political campaign.

So with family values  Vic Toews’ palms coincidentally greased,

The Conservative government in Ottawa and Winnipeg's city council are poised to help non-profit Youth For Christ build an $11.7-million, 50,000-square-foot youth centre at the northwest corner of Higgins Avenue and Main Street.

Seems the holy partisan patronage invisible sky monster worked some more magic for his faithful:

That plan, which faces a council vote on Feb. 24, is being lambasted by two opposition councillors and MP Martin, who claim it was rushed through city hall, contravenes Winnipeg's recreation policy and effectively shuts out other inner-city organizations.

"Councillors received one page of information about this. It was walked onto (executive policy committee) a week before we have to vote on this. It didn't go through the proper process," said Gerbasi, who shares Martin's concerns about the evangelistic aims of Youth For Christ.

Transcona Coun. Russ Wyatt said it's unfair to give millions to Youth For Christ without even a report from city staff, when the city makes dozens of small community organizations jump through procedural hoops to obtain small amounts of public funding.

I wonder - had the group had been named Youth For Allah, Boys For Buddha or Kids For Krishna, would it have received such funding as easily, or rather, at all? (Yes, that is a rhetorical question)

I was thinking...for just under 7 mill, I could be persuaded to start a youth group as well.

Been thinking of Kids For Cthulhu. 

Should have a pretty good shot since being amoral, such a group can hardly be accused of forcing narrow, religious values on tender, little kiddies.  And since Cthulhu has a physical form, kiddies can strive to emulate his image.

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It would offer extensive challenges:

And it encourages children to strive for the highest goals:

Cthulhu really has that tough guy image working for him as well.  That's very popular, lately.

Best of all, there’s some terrific Cthulhu rock to lure in the youngsters: