But they're just teaching us morality.
Quote:In diverse Central Park, community concerned U.S. Christian musician's concert could sow division
Sean Feucht has advertised a concert in Winnipeg's Central Park on Aug. 20. The event is part of a Canada-U.S. tour he has described as the country's "hour of awakening" and an opportunity to worship Jesus.
Crown agencies and cities overseeing six public venues in Canada's East Coast, Quebec and Ontario denied or revoked permits granted to Feucht to host events that were part of his tour this week — all citing public safety concerns among their reasoning.
Feucht has been affiliated with the MAGA movement and spoken publicly on his platforms against the LGBTQ+ community as well as against abortion rights. He was also a strong advocate against the closure of places of worship during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Charlie Eau, the executive director of Trans Manitoba, is also concerned about the kind of message Feucht could share at Central Park as he has been vocally opposed to the 2SLGBTQ+ community, gender expression and immigration before.
"This person's views are directly harmful to and make vulnerable the very people that live in the Central Park neighbourhood," they said.
"It needs to be stopped."
The musician said his group "will not cower in the face of religious persecution."
"Here's the hard truth: If I had shown up with purple hair and a dress, claiming to be a woman, the government wouldn't have said a thing," Feucht's statement said.
"But to publicly profess deeply held Christian beliefs is to be labeled an extremist and to have free worship events classified as 'public safety risks.'"
Private venues have since opened their doors for Feucht to host his events, including a church in Montreal where he took the stage on Friday and began singing while protesters gathered outside.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/...-1.7595048
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
