Browsing all posts in March, 2011.
A sample of simple biblicism
In line with the previous post The conservatives between religion and state, the 3rd point states their simple biblicism. The situation below that the Conservatives went through is the concrete example of their biblicism, which I think ironic.
When the Canada Registration Act was passed as a follow up on the conscription bill of the year [...]
Conservatives between religion and government
The unending topic about education made several groups become linked with the government and in this case arising concern with the rejected conservative position with their attitude towards the government. The diminish support of the Old Colonist to the government has been seen as a rebellious separation of church and state which it is unfeasible [...]
The Conservative Mennonites fight against the Manitoba School Act
In the year 1890, Manitoba submitted the Manitoba Schools Act, excluding French as an official language of the province, and halting the financial support for Catholic schools. This stirred up such an unwanted and prolonged across the borders of Manitoba. The Orange Order of Ontario, stirred to vigorous activity by the passage of the Jesuits’ [...]
The Conservatives II: Old Colonists Moving by Faith
To understand the conservatives more, a second look with their history will let us see the bigger picture behind their attitudes.
Walter Schmiedehaus, the late German consul in Mexico, in his story of the Mennonites in Mexico entitled Ein Feste Burg ist unser Gott, surveys the whole long history of Mennonite migrations: from the Netherlands to [...]
