{"id":17054,"date":"2012-07-28T18:10:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T22:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=17054"},"modified":"2012-07-28T18:10:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T22:10:46","slug":"united-church-of-canada-now-is-the-time-to-say-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/united-church-of-canada-now-is-the-time-to-say-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"United Church of Canada: now is the time to say goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Church of Canada has replaced heaven later with utopia now, salvation of your soul with sustainable solar and the resurrection with renewable resources. Consequently, it is on the way out, expiring, soon to be no more; it is rotting from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.united-church.ca\/organization\/moderator\/tindal\" target=\"_blank\">head down<\/a>, decaying in its own corrupt putrescence, a stench in the nostrils of God &#8211; the sooner it is dead and buried the better.<\/p>\n<p>Just like the Anglican Church of Canada.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J5ya_Gq8d4Q?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read it all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/commentary\/the-collapse-of-the-liberal-church\/article4443228\/\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two weeks from now, the United Church of Canada will assemble in Ottawa for its 41st General Council, where it will debate church policy and elect a new moderator. The top item on its agenda is a resolution calling for a boycott of products from Israeli settlements. Fortunately, nobody cares what the United Church thinks about Israeli settlements, or anything else for that matter, because the United Church doesn\u2019t matter any more.<\/p>\n<p>For many years, the United Church was a pillar of Canadian society. Its leaders were respected public figures. It was \u2013 and remains \u2013 the biggest Protestant denomination in a country that, outside Quebec, has been largely shaped by centuries of Protestant tradition.<\/p>\n<p>But today, the church is literally dying. The average age of its members is 65. They believe in many things, but they do not necessarily believe in God. Some congregations proudly describe themselves as \u201cpost-theistic,\u201d which is a good thing because, as one church elder said, it shows the church is not \u201cstuck in the past.\u201d Besides, who needs God when you\u2019ve got Israel to kick around?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Church of Canada has replaced heaven later with utopia now, salvation of your soul with sustainable solar and the resurrection with renewable resources. Consequently, it is on the way out, expiring, soon to be no more; it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/united-church-of-canada-now-is-the-time-to-say-goodbye\/\">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":17,"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[1588],"class_list":["post-17054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-united-church","tag-united-church-of-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17054","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=17054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}