{"id":21784,"date":"2014-07-18T18:42:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T22:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21784"},"modified":"2014-07-18T22:08:29","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T02:08:29","slug":"the-reason-the-church-of-england-will-have-women-bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-reason-the-church-of-england-will-have-women-bishops\/","title":{"rendered":"The reason the Church of England will have women bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has nothing to do with theology, God, revealed truth, what the Holy Spirit is saying, justice, what the Bible says or what the rest of the Anglican Communion thinks.<\/p>\n<p>It is very simple: the Church of England will have women bishops because it has caved in to the Spirit of the Age. What is more, it wants to make\u00a0conspicuous its obeisance to the zeitgeist\u00a0by\u00a0observing the fashionable pieties of equality, inclusion and feminism with maniacal enthusiasm.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the theological rightness or otherwise of women bishops, the CofE has decided in favour of them for the wrong reason. Next, for the same wrong reason, will come openly same-sex partnered bishops, followed by redefining marriage to include same-sex couples, accelerated decline and final oblivion. RIP CofE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has nothing to do with theology, God, revealed truth, what the Holy Spirit is saying, justice, what the Bible says or what the rest of the Anglican Communion thinks. It is very simple: the Church of England will have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-reason-the-church-of-england-will-have-women-bishops\/\">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":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[2089,1638],"class_list":["post-21784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england","tag-church-of-england","tag-women-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21784","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=21784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}