It seems like Canada has pockets of influence. I believe there was a time where it seemed during Pierre's run that Canada had a real momentum in moving in a conservative direction. But than seemingly over night something changed with that tide. You mentioned something about this prior. But looking back is it just different areas in Canada with differing views? Like in the USA with Red and Blue states? Or is it more like the nation gest swept along in either direction? Or how does that kind of work?
I think it helps to see right and left as political choices made by all kinds of people, many of whom are not believers, and those that are might not be biblically literate.
Christians inside a culture have varying degrees of Biblical literacy.
Plus cultures are VERY different.
Canadians are not Americans living north of the border, we are different. We both speak the same language, read the same books, watch the same movies, so when we are different in our views it is jarring. Things we take for granted up here- gun laws for one are the opposite in the States. Our legal system is very different, our view of how to care for the less fortunate. The welfare state is viewed positively up here for example. We trade off freedom for that safety net as we see it. Americans view that completely differently and often equate freedom and gun ownership as Christian values.
Christians will automatically pull towards the side that they feel lines up with their beliefs. But many Christians are overly influenced by culture and media and may not think about how each side lines up with the Bible, because they don't know their Bible that well.
Canadian Christians are not the same as the American Bible belt believers. Cultural norms play a huge role, and it depends on the degree of Bible literacy they have to see how that affects political choice.
A lot of Canadian Christians tend towards socialism. That wouldn't occur to an American Christian in the Bible belt for example, but it does up here. That might seem weird to an American but lets look at Russia for another example.
A Russian Christian is still a Russian. Brought up to believe in the virtues of socialism. It's a rarity that a Russian like Solzhenitsyn appears, and questions the norms.
Christians aren't closet Americans in a foreign culture, they are part of their nation.
I think in the Bible belt of the US, the cultural norms trend towards conservative thought and Biblical norms regardless of the person's salvation.
Not all conservatives are Christians. Some are.
In that Baptist church I used to go to, I'd say only about 1/4 would vote conservative. Another 1/4 would vote socialist and about half would vote with the centrist Liberals. Most of them take a very dim view of Trump and American conservatives (Republicans). They don't understand how people could vote for Trump. I'm unusual in that I do understand that.
There aren't a lot of us left in Canada who have a good amount of biblical literacy who would vote conservative or who challenge the way they've been brought up within the culture.
And of those who vote conservative in Canada, the majority are expressing a desire to see Canada return to it's Canadian roots and heritage. And I think the majority really are secular. Influenced by a Biblical heritage yes, but not voting conservative because they are Christians.
It's difficult to explain.
I am NOT the typical Canadian by the farthest stretch of the imagination. I think very differently than my father's family or my Christian mother's side. Most of my family think I'm nuts for my beliefs which tend to align somewhat more to the Libertarian and Conservative views. My surviving missionary aunt votes for the Liberals for example as did the rest of them.
Except for my uncle that went to the States. He thought like an American. He joined the John Birch society at one point. He was very right wing. The rest of the Christian side thought he was nuts on all those counts but the general view was --at least he was saved. Even if he didn't remain sensibly Canadian.
He was worried when I got engaged to a Russian. Till he met the Russian family I was marrying into and realized what Tsarists are like. He thought all Russians were the same- communist or socialists. Royalists were outside his vision completely.
My father's side of the family are all socialists, and with 3 exceptions besides me are not Christians.
I was raised to be a socialist - my Christian mother tended that way too, and my father was steeped in it. It wasn't till I grew up and watched Ronald Reagan come to power and saw Reagan's vision of economics working in spite of everyone up here thinking it was a disaster that I began to question that view.
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This is the Canada that I love 
