It is unfortunate that many people persist in regarding Social Credit merely as a particular brand of monetary reform. Nothing could be further from the truth. As pointed out in “Social Credit and Catholicism,” Major Douglas has always insisted that Social Credit is more than a money reform scheme, that it is a policy of a philosophy. Social Credit is based upon the Christian philosophy, which emphasises the importance of the individual and the subservience of the institution to the needs of the individual.
The War against civilization, irrespective of whether it is carried on under the label of Socialism, Communism, or “planning” of the various brands, is hostile to the basic Christian philosophy. It is not without significance that Social Credit ideas have made most progress amongst two Canadian communities in which the predominant philosophy is Christian. The Canadian Province of Alberta, which elected a Social Credit Government in 1935 and has kept it ever since, is unlike Catholic Quebec, predominately Protestant. Mr. Aberhart, the first Social Credit Premier in Alberta, said time and time again, that Social Credit ideas appealed to him because they were in harmony with Christian philosophy. Mr. Aberhart was often called by his enemies the “praying Premier.”
