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Marc BW's avatar

I ran Kavie Toor’s reply through an AI checker just for manure and giggles.

Yes, it was. ChatGPT model 4.6b at 100%.

hoppetossa's avatar

What’s the deal with“mass casualty support facility (acting as home base to a Christian Disaster support NGO from Alberta“

Charles Menzies's avatar

It's there and their command centre truck loudly proclaims they are doing it for Jesus. One can infer their connection from this UBC promo piece: https://news.ubc.ca/2026/06/community-safety-emergency-planning-ubc-soccer-summer/

The people onsite all have name tags and beige vests with the NGO name, but don't provide details when asked. They are proudly proclaiming themselves online: https://www.samaritanspurse.ca/article/mass-care-deployment-for-fifa-world-cup/

They are an expressly conservative brand of christians and are anti LGBT: They "believe God’s plan for human sexuality is to be expressed only within the context of marriage, that God created man and woman as unique biological persons made to complete each other. God instituted monogamous marriage between male and female as the foundation of the family and the basic structure of human society. For this reason, we believe that marriage is exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female."

https://www.samaritanspurse.ca/our-statement-of-faith/

Is it an irony (or a tragedy) that a group that violates UBC's stated values has set up camp in the Osborne Gyms?

Charles Menzies's avatar

and, while this particular convoy might hail from alberta, they are part of the Billy Graham enterprise of entrepreneurial Christians.

hoppetossa's avatar

This is so so wild