{"id":22217,"date":"2014-11-07T13:39:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T18:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=22217"},"modified":"2014-11-07T14:40:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T19:40:35","slug":"church-flies-isis-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/church-flies-isis-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Church flies ISIS flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus commands us to love our enemies. Our fallen nature is repulsed by such an idea. Fear not, St Columba Uniting Church in Australia has come up with something much easier: love someone else\u2019s enemies.<\/p>\n<p>St Columba Uniting Church is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/national\/church-uses-isis-flag-to-sell-jesus-message\/story-fncynjr2-1227114800621\" target=\"_blank\">flying an ISIS flag<\/a> with a quote from Matthew 5:44 on it:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22218\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ISIS-Church.jpg\" alt=\"ISIS-Church\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ISIS-Church.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ISIS-Church-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ISIS-Church-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s very easy for comfortable Western Christians to parade their piety by expressing forgiveness for a remote enemy that has done them no direct harm. It is a little harder for the parents in Iraq or Syria whose children have been murdered. The clergy who erected the flag have not suffered at the hands of ISIS; they have nothing to lose by forgiving ISIS. Moreover, by sycophantically <a href=\"http:\/\/canberraregion.unitingchurch.org.au\/2014\/call-for-an-inclusive-and-socially-cohesive-australia\/\" target=\"_blank\">sucking up<\/a> to non-Christian religions, the denomination could win the coveted <em>Order of the Politically Correct<\/em> award.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>St Columba &#8216;s exhortation might have been marginally more convincing had it been placed on the corporate logo of an organisation that the church probably does genuinely hate: a carbon spewing oil company, for example.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if they would have got away something similar involving a swastika during World War 2?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus commands us to love our enemies. Our fallen nature is repulsed by such an idea. Fear not, St Columba Uniting Church in Australia has come up with something much easier: love someone else\u2019s enemies. St Columba Uniting Church is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/church-flies-isis-flag\/\">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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[1864,1917],"class_list":["post-22217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamic-terrorism","tag-isis","tag-st-columba-uniting-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22217","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=22217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}