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Anglicans going with the suicidal flow

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A couple of weeks ago there was a report of an Anglican Church of Canada vicar attending a double suicide. His presence gave tacit Anglican approval of their decision.

Now, the Diocese of Huron’s Rev Keith Nethery has provided an Anglican clerical presence as another person is euthanised.

While I can readily understand why a person in pain might be willing to do anything to escape the pain, what puzzles me is the complete absence of guidance provided by the church, in this case in the shape of Nethery, who says:

“I don’t see my role to influence anyone in that situation one way or the other,” he says. “My role, what God has called me to do, is to go and be present… so that people have someone to journey with,” he says.

Since Carolyn’s passing, Nethery says, a small number of other people have asked him if he would provide pastoral care to them if they decided they wanted medically assisted death.

Surely, if any organisation and its representatives should have an opinion about matters of life and death, it is the church. Yet an opinion, strong or otherwise, seems to completely elude Nethery, who is content to go with the flow and just be present.

The Anglican Church of Canada has never had a useful opinion on abortion other than acknowledging that it happens. I suppose it should surprise no one that it is applying this wealth of hard earned indecision garnered over many years to euthanasia.

The ACoC seems to be well on the way to becoming a death cult.

Diocese of Huron: church closures and mergers

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Trinity Church, Mitchell was deconsecrated on September 9th, St. Paul’s, Kirkton on September 16th, and St Mary’s, Brinsley on Tuesday September 25th.

In addition, St. Stephens, Christ Church and Holy Trinity will be “joined”. This, apparently, is not an “amalgamation” and there will be no closures. Really, there won’t. In fact, the words “amalgamation” and “closure” have never been mentioned.

Well, they were mentioned once in this article (page 3) by Rev. Keith Nethery, rector of one of the churches – and he only mentioned the words to remind us that they have never been mentioned. Except by him in the article; by accident. They haven’t even been thought about. Really.

Rev. Keith Nethery in the world of blogs

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Rev. Keith Nethery is becoming rather alarmed (page 2) – disturbed even – at what he reads on blogs:

What does it mean to study something? How do we go about discussing an issue?
I spend considerable time reading blogs and various media from around the world on things Anglican. In doing this, there is something becoming more and more obvious to me and it is alarming. Now let me say first that I do NOT just read one side of the story. The blogs that I have marked for daily consumption cover the entire scale of theological opinion. What bothers me is that I see some disturbing trends in how we answer the two questions that I began with.

My understanding of study is that one will find a variety of opinions and see how that informs the thoughts that they possessed going into said study. More and more, it seems to me, that study is another term for a determination to prove the “other” wrong……

When folks search “Anglican” on their computers, it is scarey what they will find masquerading as the true face of who we are. If the foregoing statement was posted on many of the blogs I read daily, it would be followed by an immediate swell of condemnation from people on both ends of the spectrum, because discussion and study have become code words for further opportunity to demand agreement for one’s place on the scale.

This comment by the very same Rev. Nethery tends to show that he is less than eager to take his own advice when he feels called upon to show that those of us who “haunt the far right side of Anglicanism” are in sore need of “a dose of reality.” ­

Job well done in this post and in the discussion with David on Samizdat. I’ve had more than one such conversation with David, Warren and the others that haunt the far right side of Anglicanism that ended similarly – oh, but we’re right and you’re wrong because we say so, thank you for coming and come back again so we can tell you how right we are. I honestly think that we need to bust into their world every once now and again to give them a dose of reality.

The exchange in question is here and, as these things go, was reasonably civil and entirely devoid of the phrase – or idea – “oh, but we’re right and you’re wrong because we say so.”

Rev. Nethery’s solution (page 2) to all this seems to be:

My oft unpopular position is that there is always room to be further informed and to weigh more ideas.

Doubtless this is a remedy that he wishes those of us that infest the swamps of Anglicanism’s right would embrace, but one – in spite of protestations to the contrary – in which he is reluctant to dabble himself: that must be because we are just spinning:

Even one of ANIC’s spinning best bloggers can’t draw more than a comment or two posting on Holy Post at the National Post.

I can’t help wondering whether what is really eating Rev. Nethery is the fact that there are people who disagree with him; and they just won’t shut up.