{"id":10562,"date":"2010-11-08T00:51:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T04:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10562"},"modified":"2010-11-08T00:51:22","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T04:51:22","slug":"diocese-of-niagara-publishes-its-religion-of-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-niagara-publishes-its-religion-of-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Niagara publishes its religion of works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And they are green works. The list is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagara.anglican.ca\/green\/docs\/Niagara%20Home%20Challenge.pdf\">here<\/a> and includes the 10 pieces of dogma to which a person must adhere to be fit for green heaven.<\/p>\n<p>Just as in real Christianity, some of the articles of faith are harder to comprehend than others: a notable example is the difficulty in deciding whether to use a garbage bin, green box or blue box to chuck your Niagara Anglican in before reading it. The diocese suggests the pious family will ensure that \u201c<em>[e]veryone in the home has been &#8220;trained&#8221; in the correct use of the blue, green and regular garbage bins.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>It goes without saying that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Low flow shower heads are installed<br \/>\nSingle use plastic bottles are not used in the home<br \/>\nFair trade coffee and other products are used in the home<br \/>\nAt least two days a week are designated as meat free<br \/>\nOrganic Ontario food is bought when possible<br \/>\nOne day a week the car stays in the garage<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And so on. As you can see, the Diocese of Niagara is keen to inflict \u00a0its 21<sup>st<\/sup> C version of self flagellation on parishioners and is encouraging family members to inform on one other when a miscreant is caught sneaking a bite of non-organic Texas beef by the light of an incandescent bulb in between swigs of water from a plastic bottle. With non-fair-trade coffee to follow. Violators will be incarcerated in the nearest Justice Camp for re-education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And they are green works. The list is here and includes the 10 pieces of dogma to which a person must adhere to be fit for green heaven. Just as in real Christianity, some of the articles of faith are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-niagara-publishes-its-religion-of-works\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[2111,2130],"class_list":["post-10562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara","tag-diocese-of-niagara","tag-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}