In that two-word nutshell, the current federal government has expressed the fullness of its utter contempt for religious faith and religious believers. “Spiritual reflections do not use religious specific language, including references to God etc.,” the document says in its definitions section. The directive is aimed primarily at military chaplains and those who oversee them in their work with members of the Canadian Armed Forces. or, in the case of removing legal protections for Scriptural language, constantly equates religious faith with the fomenting of hatred. “The inclusion of Indigenous practices must remain consistent with the duty to maintain religious neutrality and the principles set out (in the document),” it says.