{"id":13785,"date":"2011-08-05T11:36:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T15:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=13785"},"modified":"2011-08-05T11:36:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T15:36:53","slug":"clergyman-in-netherlands-largest-protestant-denomination-has-decided-jesus-didnt-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/clergyman-in-netherlands-largest-protestant-denomination-has-decided-jesus-didnt-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Clergyman in Netherland\u2019s largest Protestant denomination has decided Jesus didn&#039;t exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So obviously he wasn&#8217;t resurrected. While we&#8217;re at it, God isn\u2019t a supernatural being, there is no life after death and the Bible describes myths.<\/p>\n<p>Fittingly, his church is named the Exodus Church: that\u2019s what his congregation should do as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>He is not alone. According to a study by the Free University of Amsterdam, one-in-six clergy in the Protestantse Kerk in Nederland and six other smaller denominations are either agnostic or atheist.<\/p>\n<p>Here he is.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><embed src='http:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/jwplayer\/player.swf' height='360' width='600' bgcolor='0' allowscriptaccess='never' controlbar='none' allowfullscreen='true' flashvars=\"&#038;backcolor=0xffffff&#038;file=https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/videos\/godlessclergyman.flv\"\/><\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-14417362\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So obviously he wasn&#8217;t resurrected. While we&#8217;re at it, God isn\u2019t a supernatural being, there is no life after death and the Bible describes myths. Fittingly, his church is named the Exodus Church: that\u2019s what his congregation should do as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/clergyman-in-netherlands-largest-protestant-denomination-has-decided-jesus-didnt-exist\/\">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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1233,1292],"class_list":["post-13785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barmy-clergymen","tag-pkn","tag-rev-klaas-hendrikse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13785","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=13785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}