{"id":16502,"date":"2012-05-17T23:27:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T03:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=16502"},"modified":"2012-05-17T23:27:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T03:27:37","slug":"the-diocese-of-new-westminster-synod-passes-some-motions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-diocese-of-new-westminster-synod-passes-some-motions\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diocese of New Westminster synod repudiates the Doctrine of Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The synod motion is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouver.anglican.ca\/portals\/0\/repositoRy\/Resolutionssynod2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The forward looking Diocese of New Westminster has, in its ceaseless pursuit of relevance, passed a synod motion to \u201crepudiate and renounce\u201d a papal bull issued in 1452. The Doctrine of Discovery was a papal justification for colonising newly discovered non-Christian lands.<\/p>\n<p>The diocese, having writhed with guilt for centuries over occupying native \u2013 sorry, <em>Indigenous People\u2019s <\/em>\u2013 land, has made the odd decision to compound the problem by occupying churches in St. John\u2019s Shaughnessy, St. Matthews Abbotsford and St. Matthias and St. Luke\u2019s Vancouver. In fairness to the diocese, though, a further motion to call a special synod to figure out how best to colonise the parishes was defeated.<\/p>\n<p>500 years ago Christians displaced pagans and took what belonged to them. Today pagans displace Christians and take what belongs to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The synod motion is here. The forward looking Diocese of New Westminster has, in its ceaseless pursuit of relevance, passed a synod motion to \u201crepudiate and renounce\u201d a papal bull issued in 1452. The Doctrine of Discovery was a papal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-diocese-of-new-westminster-synod-passes-some-motions\/\">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":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[2110],"class_list":["post-16502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-new-westminster","tag-diocese-of-new-westminster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16502","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=16502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}