{"id":14981,"date":"2011-11-20T17:17:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T22:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=14981"},"modified":"2011-11-20T17:17:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T22:17:36","slug":"occupy-toronto-is-angry-at-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/occupy-toronto-is-angry-at-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Occupy Toronto is angry at the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2011\/11\/19\/occupy-toronto-angry-with-church--and-the-sun\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>TORONTO\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Occupy Toronto protesters in St. James Park lashed out at the neighbouring church on Saturday, calling its officials un-Christian for vowing to stand behind a possible eviction.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas Stoute, the rector of St. James Cathedral located on the west side of the park, said Thursday the church would back any decision made by Justice David Brown, who will decide Monday whether or not to uphold a city-issued eviction that would see the removal of occupiers from the park, including the church\u2019s portion.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026..]<\/p>\n<p>Up until now, St. James Cathedral has allowed a food station, several tents and a yurt to be on its portion of the park since occupiers set up camp in mid-October. And some demonstrators recently said they would flee to the church\u2019s portion of land should police end up enforcing an eviction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re not Christians,\u201d Occupy organizer Antonin Smith said angrily Saturday in reaction to Stout\u2019s announcement, calling the support the church has given the park occupiers to this point \u201ccosmetic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate the support they\u2019ve given us, I just thought it extended a lot further&#8230;I don\u2019t appreciate being stabbed in the back,\u201d said Smith, who had been in discussions with the church since the occupation of the park began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Jesus were here, he\u2019d be in a tent&#8230;Given his values, I imagine he\u2019d be walking with as, along with Allah and Buddha,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I almost feel sorry for Douglas Stoute. There he is working for a denomination that has, for the most part not only abandoned Christianity, but forgotten what it is, being lectured by squatting miscreants on the nature of Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>To compound the irony, the half baked things the occupiers are saying about Christianity and the reason for the Incarnation could just have easily fallen from the lips of a trendy Anglican bishop \u2013 or Dean Douglas Stoute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: TORONTO\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Occupy Toronto protesters in St. James Park lashed out at the neighbouring church on Saturday, calling its officials un-Christian for vowing to stand behind a possible eviction. Douglas Stoute, the rector of St. James Cathedral located on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/occupy-toronto-is-angry-at-the-church\/\">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":[241],"tags":[657,1168],"class_list":["post-14981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-occupy","tag-dean-douglas-stoute","tag-occupy-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14981","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=14981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}