{"id":22155,"date":"2014-10-16T20:55:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T00:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=22155"},"modified":"2014-10-16T20:55:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T00:55:08","slug":"anglican-vicar-turns-from-terrorism-to-eco-agitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-vicar-turns-from-terrorism-to-eco-agitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican vicar turns from terrorism to eco-agitation"},"content":{"rendered":"

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Pederick\"<\/a>THE priest at the forefront of the Anglican Church\u2019s push to dump millions of dollars in fossil fuel investments on ethical grounds was also responsible for the most \u00adnotorious act of terrorism on Australian soil.<\/p>\n

Evan Pederick was the only man convicted over the 1978 bombing of Sydney\u2019s Hilton Hotel, which killed three people.<\/p>\n

Today, Father Pederick heads a parish in the southern Perth suburb of Cannington and has been the driving force of the church\u2019s sell-off of holdings in coal, oil and gas companies.<\/p>\n

At last month\u2019s annual synod of the Anglican Diocese of Perth, Father Pederick successfully \u00adargued for the divestment of fossil fuels.<\/p>\n

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Father Pederick came forward and confessed to the bombing in 1989 and was ultimately jailed for 13\u00bd years (he would serve 8\u00bd) after being convicted of three murders and conspiracy to murder. His alleged co-conspirator, Tim Anderson, was in 1990 sentenced to 14 years\u2019 jail.<\/p>\n

Supreme Court judge Michael Grove said Mr Anderson had been \u201cbrainwashed\u201d by the Ananda Marga cult when he instigated the bombing. Seven months later, he was acquitted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What strikes me about this isn\u2019t so much that Evan Pederick was a terrorist \u2013 in the article he acknowledges that he is \u201ca sinful human being\u201d and presumably has repented of his sin \u2013 but that he appears unduly susceptible to brainwashing. First by the Ananda Marga<\/a> cult, a pile of nonsense so transparently bogus that it is astonishing that anyone could fall for it, and secondly by the Fossil Fuel Divestment<\/a> cult, a pile of nonsense so transparently bogus that\u2026 well, you know the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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