Reddit mentions of The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada

have you read armageddon factor by marci mcdonald? might be worth looking at as well before the election.

Canadian politics generally follows the ebb and flow of American politics on a decade or so delay. Our media is primarily American, so we take in their trials and tribulations and develop thoughts and feelings around them which start to pervade our own politics and society.

That said, if you want a truly interesting look at a subsection of this that helped to balloon into the overly populist, inflammatory, and socially conservative politics we see in Canada today, read The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada by Marci McDonald. It's a little old now (2011) and looks primarily at the rise of Harper's government on the backbone of George W. Bush, but it's an incredibly engaging read by a fantastic Canadian journalist that gives a shocking inside look at how the most insidious elements o the Christian Right in America worked directly with Canadian politicians and political organizations to turn Canadians Christians into Conservative voters. It's equal parts terrifying and enlightening.

Stephen Harper belongs to a school of though/church that posits that the end times are here and that environmentalism is the enemy of the nation's souls.

I am all for moderate, right-of-centre conservatives, but these guys are something else entirely.

There's literally a whole book on the subject:

https://www.amazon.ca/Armageddon-Factor-Christian-Nationalism-Canada/product-reviews/0307356477/ref=dpx_acr_txt?showViewpoints=1

I haven't read it myself, I admit. But it seems disingenuous to dismiss his ties to the religious right in an offhand manner given that books like this (and a number of other expositions on the matter) exist.