{"id":13108,"date":"2011-05-19T13:06:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T17:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=13108"},"modified":"2011-05-19T13:06:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T17:06:35","slug":"anglican-chaplain-works-hard-to-prevent-christian-conversion-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-chaplain-works-hard-to-prevent-christian-conversion-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican chaplain works hard to prevent Christian conversion in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine that.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/victoria\/chaplain-joins-religion-row-20110519-1ev07.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THE chaplain at Melbourne&#8217;s most prestigious Anglican school has spoken out against the way religion is taught in Victorian government schools, saying their classrooms should not be used for &#8221;conversion&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026..]<\/p>\n<p>While proselytising is supposed to be forbidden, a recording recently emerged of a speech by Access Ministries chief executive Evonne Paddison, in which she stressed the need to &#8221;go and make disciples&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She also said: &#8221;Without Jesus, our students are lost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her comments sparked outrage and have prompted an investigation by both the state and federal governments.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Noone said the statement that children would be lost without Jesus revealed Dr Paddison&#8217;s theology and educational philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The statement is claiming a lot and it is manifestly not true, however I don&#8217;t doubt that it forms the basis of why she does what she does,&#8221; he wrote in Melbourne Grammar&#8217;s newsletter. &#8221;There is a certain kind of evangelical Christian who believes they have the truth and a serious duty to tell everyone else.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, Rev. Noone, if you think the statement <em>&#8221;Without Jesus, our students are lost.&#8221; <\/em>is <em>\u201cmanifestly not true\u201d<\/em>, why are you a member of a profession whose job it is to proclaim that it <em>is <\/em>true?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I get it, you are a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Hiltz-Schori2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">fifth column<\/a> gaytheists who have infiltrated the Anglican church in order to turn it into the people&#8217;s socialist lawn bowling collective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine that. From here: THE chaplain at Melbourne&#8217;s most prestigious Anglican school has spoken out against the way religion is taught in Victorian government schools, saying their classrooms should not be used for &#8221;conversion&#8221;. [\u2026..] While proselytising is supposed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-chaplain-works-hard-to-prevent-christian-conversion-in-schools\/\">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":[36],"tags":[2050],"class_list":["post-13108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barmy-anglican-priests","tag-barmy-anglican-priests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13108","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=13108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}