{"id":2106,"date":"2009-01-20T20:12:54","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T01:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=2106"},"modified":"2009-01-20T20:12:54","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T01:12:54","slug":"diocese-of-niagara-the-inevitable-fawning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-niagara-the-inevitable-fawning\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Niagara: the inevitable fawning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Diocese of Niagara is displaying Gene Robinson&#8217;s inaugural non-Christian prayer to an <span class=\"ResultBody\">anonymous<\/span> god on its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagara.anglican.ca\/News\/Bishop%20Robinson%27s%20Prayer.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">web site<\/a> but is strangely silent when it comes Rick Warren&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbn.com\/CBNnews\/524368.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Christian prayer<\/a>, a prayer that refers to Jesus. One supposes that this is because Niagara&#8217;s diocesan hegemony is more comfortable with a homosexual bishop than Jesus &#8211; someone they would demonstrably rather ignore.<\/p>\n<p>It also has Obama&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagara.anglican.ca\/News\/2009_Obama.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">address<\/a> &#8211; I don&#8217;t remember Bush being given the same space &#8211; confirming my suspicion that the Niagara diocese is more interested in the kingdom of man than the kingdom of God, and left-wing political agitation than the salvation of souls.<\/p>\n<p><em>Correction: Rick Warren&#8217;s prayer was put on the Niagara site a day later.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Diocese of Niagara is displaying Gene Robinson&#8217;s inaugural non-Christian prayer to an anonymous god on its web site but is strangely silent when it comes Rick Warren&#8217;s Christian prayer, a prayer that refers to Jesus. One supposes that this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-niagara-the-inevitable-fawning\/\">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":[110],"tags":[2111],"class_list":["post-2106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara","tag-diocese-of-niagara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106","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=2106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}