{"id":12417,"date":"2011-03-29T18:43:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T22:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=12417"},"modified":"2011-03-29T18:43:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T22:43:30","slug":"manchester-cathedral-embraces-tarot-cards-and-fire-breathing-vicars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/manchester-cathedral-embraces-tarot-cards-and-fire-breathing-vicars\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester Cathedral embraces tarot cards and fire breathing vicars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/menmedia.co.uk\/manchestereveningnews\/news\/s\/1416452_manchester-cathedral-to-host-tarot-card-readers-and-healers-at-new-age-festival\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Manchester Cathedral is to host a \u2018new age\u2019 festival featuring tarot card readers, crystal healers and \u2018dream interpretation\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Local Anglican leaders have agreed to throw open the doors of the historic cathedral in a bid to embrace alternative forms of Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>Fortune tellers, meditation experts and traditional healers will fill the pews during the day-long festival in May. The Bishop of Manchester, Rt Rev Nigel McCulloch, said he wanted to celebrate \u2018all forms of spirituality\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Spirit of Life festival on May 2 will also feature stalls and workshops on angels, prayer bead-making and massage.<\/p>\n<p>Fire-breathing vicar Rev Andy Salmon, of Sacred Trinity Church and St Philip with St Stephen in Salford, will also perform.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Where are the dancing bears, and ritual voodoo sacrifices you are probably thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Is it any wonder the Anglican Church has become a universal laughing stock as it self-parodies its former seriousness by solemnly pondering the virtues of sodomy, opening its places of worship to practitioners of the occult, employing fire-breathing performing vicars and calling the whole mish-mash a celebration of \u2018all forms of spirituality\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>One can only hope that someone brings a Koran and the fire-breathing vicar ignites it in a Koran flamb\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Manchester Cathedral is to host a \u2018new age\u2019 festival featuring tarot card readers, crystal healers and \u2018dream interpretation\u2019. Local Anglican leaders have agreed to throw open the doors of the historic cathedral in a bid to embrace alternative &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/manchester-cathedral-embraces-tarot-cards-and-fire-breathing-vicars\/\">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":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2051],"class_list":["post-12417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barmy-anglicans","tag-barmy-anglicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12417","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=12417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}