Unrepentant: Ripping The Mask from Power
If Christ returned, he'd be crucified again, not by Jews or Romans but by the church, which has been hijacked by His enemies; at least this is the case in Canada.
This is obvious from the fate of Kevin Annet, a young United Church of Canada minister who took Christ's teaching to heart, and suffered everything but Crucifixion; for exposing the hypocritical face of power in Canada, both religious and political.
In a self published memoirs, "Love and Death in the Valley," Kevin Annett reveals the currupt religious and political power structures of Canada responsible for systematic genocide of indigenious populations of Canada, to rob their lands and natural resources;They created the "Residential School System" for indiginious children , where a disproportionate number of this children died mysteriously in this schools run by various Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy, sanctioned by the Canadian Government.
Many books have left me winded, but none like this, no book has laid bare the true hypocracy of Canadian political and religious society, like this book.
I have met Kevin Annett and no, he doesn't have a halo. but he does exude a transperancy and a dogged determinationm to make sure we learn the truth about the genocide of North American Indians. He is the closest thing to a genuine dissent in this society, the closest thing to a real hero. Although he's been fighting this lonely battle for 15 years, we haven't heard of him, proof our "heroes" are manufactured for us.
Kevin is a kind of "innocent" or "true believer" organizations like the Communist Party or United (Methodist-Presbyterian) Church hire to provide an *artifice (*false front stratagem). But "every group has rules", Kevin was told repeatedly, and he didn't adapt. A real Christian represents Christ not the corrupt imposters who invaded you. Kevin was a Minister of Christ.
Minister Kevin muses on the disconnect between what people profess and what they actually do. The most successful minister in the church I found is the man or woman who can function as an efficient dissociated personality, regularly professing one thing and doing the opposite. "Give the place a bit of Spirit," his boss told him at Fred Victor Mission, a residence for the homeless near Toronto's seedy Yonge Station, as if talking to a painter.
In the course of his work, Kevin learned the Church Mission was a center for drug trafficking and prostitution and the staff were on the take. He learned that large donations to the mission were embezzled, while there wasn't any money for bibles. When he took these matters to the church hierarchy, they knew and didn't want to know about it.
This was Kevin's first glimpse of the United Church of Canada, paled beyond comparison when he took up his next asignment as Minister in a British Columbia logging town, he opened his sanctuary to the poor and non-White. He began to hear stories from his Aboriginal parishioners about ethnic cleansing at government funded church-run "residential schools."
In the course of telling their stories Kevin learned of Native children were sytematically abducted by the RCMP and forced to attend these "schools" which were in fact concentration camps in disguise. Here helpless children were physically and sexually abused, sterilized and deliberately exposed to deadly viruses.........read more
