{"id":13001,"date":"2011-05-10T11:03:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T15:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=13001"},"modified":"2011-05-10T11:03:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T15:03:41","slug":"and-now-for-something-completely-different-an-anglican-clergyman-who-thinks-bin-laden-should-have-been-stamped-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/and-now-for-something-completely-different-an-anglican-clergyman-who-thinks-bin-laden-should-have-been-stamped-out\/","title":{"rendered":"And now for something completely different: an Anglican clergyman who thinks bin Laden should have been \u201cstamped out\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lep.co.uk\/news\/vicar_s_shock_over_bin_laden_1_3364698\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13003\" title=\"stampout\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/stampout.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"209\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a LEADING Lancashire clergyman has spoken of his \u201csurprise\u201d after the Archbishop of Canterbury criticised the killing of Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n<p>Fr Timothy Lipscomb, vicar of Preston, claims the al-Qaeda leader needed \u201cstamping out\u201d and congratulated US special forces for killing the terrorist who was believed to have ordered the 9\/11 attacks in New York and Washington that killed thousands of people. His comments come after Dr Rowan Williams, head of the 80-million strong Anglican Communion, said the killing of the unarmed terrorist left him with an \u201cuncomfortable feeling.\u201d\u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThe fact of the matter is that bin Laden was a murderer and needed to be stamped out. It might not sound very Christian but it is true.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a big supporter of the Archbishop\u2019s but I was very surprised by his comments on this matter. He is a very intelligent man but maybe he sometimes has difficulty in expressing what he really means.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A person who has difficulty expressing what he \u201creally means\u201d is usually signifying that he doesn\u2019t know what he really means. I think Rowan Williams knew exactly what he meant in this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: a LEADING Lancashire clergyman has spoken of his \u201csurprise\u201d after the Archbishop of Canterbury criticised the killing of Osama bin Laden. Fr Timothy Lipscomb, vicar of Preston, claims the al-Qaeda leader needed \u201cstamping out\u201d and congratulated US special &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/and-now-for-something-completely-different-an-anglican-clergyman-who-thinks-bin-laden-should-have-been-stamped-out\/\">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":[243],"tags":[766,2217,2241],"class_list":["post-13001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-osama-bin-laden","tag-fr-timothy-lipscomb","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-rowan-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13001","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=13001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}