{"id":16130,"date":"2012-04-03T21:48:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T01:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=16130"},"modified":"2012-04-03T21:48:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T01:48:32","slug":"st-pauls-cathedral-london-to-hold-u2charist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/st-pauls-cathedral-london-to-hold-u2charist\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Paul\u2019s Cathedral, London to hold U2charist"},"content":{"rendered":"

St. Paul\u2019s Cathedral will hold its fourth U2charist<\/a> on May the 4th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

A U2charist<\/a> is \u201ca communion service, or Eucharist, accompanied by U2 songs\u201d designed to encourage people \u201cto rally around the Millennium Development Goals\u201d.<\/p>\n

It appears to make no pretence to having much to do with Christ\u2019s body and blood and, since I think the Millennium Development Goals are a thoroughly odious substitute, I will probably not attend.<\/p>\n

Add to this the fact that Bono sees no hypocrisy in tirelessly championing the taxpayer funded Millennium Development Goals while having just made $1 billion<\/a> from his Facebook shares on which he will, no doubt, pay no tax<\/a> and I can’t see why anyone<\/em> would want to attend.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, a prior effort managed to fill the cathedral; it adheres to the received Anglican dogma that it doesn\u2019t matter what you do<\/em> with people who attend church, as long as you get<\/em> them there.<\/p>\n

Bono does allow churches to use his songs without paying a copyright fee, though: very sacrificial.<\/p>\n

Here you will see one of my biggest fans<\/a>, Rev. Keith Nethery interviewing the organiser:<\/p>\n