{"id":15595,"date":"2012-02-06T11:20:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T16:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15595"},"modified":"2012-02-06T11:20:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T16:20:06","slug":"in-the-uk-you-can-no-longer-proclaim-god-can-heal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/in-the-uk-you-can-no-longer-proclaim-god-can-heal\/","title":{"rendered":"In the UK, you can no longer proclaim \u201cGod can heal\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-somerset-16871116\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said it had concluded that the adverts by Healing on the Streets (HOTS) &#8211; Bath, were misleading.<\/p>\n<p>It said a leaflet available to download from the group&#8217;s website said: &#8220;Need Healing? God can heal today!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026.]<\/p>\n<p>The ASA said it had been alerted to the adverts by a complainant, and concluded that they could encourage false hope and were irresponsible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If all advertising that <em>\u201ccould encourage false hope\u201d<\/em> were banned, then there would be very little advertising at all and the economy of the UK would collapse even faster than it already is.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that these advertisements have been singled out for special opprobrium is yet another example of secularism\u2019s attempt to expunge Christianity from public view.<\/p>\n<p>On purely factual grounds the ban is absurd: if a person believes there is no God, his hopes for healing will not be stimulated by the ad; if a person believes in God, but he doesn\u2019t actually exist, he is already so deluded that one more false hope won\u2019t make much difference; if a person believes in God and God does exist, then there is no false hope in believing God can heal \u2013 he can do anything he chooses, including heal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said it had concluded that the adverts by Healing on the Streets (HOTS) &#8211; Bath, were misleading. It said a leaflet available to download from the group&#8217;s website said: &#8220;Need Healing? God can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/in-the-uk-you-can-no-longer-proclaim-god-can-heal\/\">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":[287],"tags":[2049,2248],"class_list":["post-15595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-secularism","tag-atheism","tag-secularism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15595","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=15595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}