{"id":15243,"date":"2011-12-26T11:42:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T16:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15243"},"modified":"2011-12-26T11:42:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T16:42:06","slug":"going-to-church-lowers-your-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/going-to-church-lowers-your-blood-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Going to church lowers your blood pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Going to church at Christmas may have been good for the soul, but scientists have discovered that it may also be good for the body.<\/p>\n

Researchers found that attending services lowers blood pressure \u2013 and the more often you go the lower it becomes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unless, that is, you belong to the Anglican Church of Canada and are an unwitting recipient of the Anglican Journal, in which case, if you are a Christian, articles like this<\/a> will undoubtedly increase your blood pressure:<\/p>\n

As for the New Testament, Spong rejects the 4th-century Augustinian interpretation of Christ the Redeemer of sinners. Christ should be reconstrued not as \u201cthe divine invader but as the human life who broke through consciousness to a new level of understanding, and people perceive that as the presence of God in him. A hundred years from now I\u2019m quite sure that view will be almost universal.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his non-theistic universe, Christianity is about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. \u201cI am tired of seeing the Bible being used, as it has been throughout history, to legitimize slavery and segregation, to subdue women, to punish homosexuals, to justify war and to oppose family planning and birth control.\u201d For him, that is a perversion and travesty that must be challenged and changed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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