Andrew Bennett, a Christian college dean and former civil servant, has been named ambassador for Canada's Office of Wingnut Religious Freedom, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced today.
Bennett, a Catholic Dispensationalist, is dean of Augustine College, a Christian college in Ottawa that graduates about 16 students a year. He has a PhD in politics from the University of Edinburgh and a master of arts in history from McGill University in Montreal.
Paul Bramadat of the University of Victoria told CBC Radio's Louise Elliott that Augustine College has a unique position on education — to basically return education to a time before "the acid of modernity" as it says on St. Augustine's web site. The college's purpose seems to be to prepare students to enter a secular world perceived as hostile to their delightfully unique anti-Christ worshipping dispensationalist worldview.
The college's website says, "Augustine College accepts the model of education that reigned for millennia, until the modern age began to dismantle that tradition with Copernicus and his crazy talk of round planets and Earth revolving around the sun heretical mumbo-jumbo.”
