{"id":22755,"date":"2015-03-30T18:03:11","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T22:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=22755"},"modified":"2015-03-31T08:38:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T12:38:21","slug":"anglican-bishops-living-down-to-expectations-hijack-holy-week-to-denounce-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-bishops-living-down-to-expectations-hijack-holy-week-to-denounce-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican bishops, living down to expectations, hijack Holy Week to denounce global warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtcc.org\/2015\/03\/30\/anglican-bishops-lead-holy-week-call-for-global-climate-action\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We, a group of Anglican Bishops from dioceses across our global Communion greet our sisters and brothers in Christ throughout the Anglican Communion on this most Holy Day, Good Friday. On this day, when our Saviour poured out his very life for the world, we share the following statement in a spirit of sacrificial and reconciling love.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe covetous desires of people and nations to possess what is not their own, Father, forgive. The greed which exploits the work of human hands and lays waste the earth, Father, forgive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At this time of unprecedented climate crisis, we call all our brothers and sisters in the Anglican Communion to join us in prayer and in pastoral, priestly and prophetic action.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This bit is interesting (my emphasis):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We believe that the problem is spiritual as well as economic, scientific and political, because the roadblock to effective action relates to basic existential issues of how human life is framed and valued: including the competing moral claims of present and future generations, <strong>human versus non-human interests<\/strong>, and how the lifestyle of wealthy countries is to be balanced against the basic needs of the developing world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nSetting<em> non-human interests<\/em> above or equal to human interests is typical of the green movement. Animal life, plant life and the earth itself are valued above mankind. Since the villain is fossil fuels and since fossil fuels are largely responsible for most of the benefits of civilisation enjoyed by those, including the bishops, in developed and developing countries, I am convinced that at its root, this is a death-wish neurosis, a lemming-like suicide impulse, the ultimate sacrifice to a Gaia god. In other words, Western Anglicanism at its worst.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Canada was represented at these <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neo-Druidism\" target=\"_blank\">neo-druid<\/a> deliberations by Earth Mother Bishop Jane Alexander&nbsp;and Smudging Bishop Mark MacDonald.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: We, a group of Anglican Bishops from dioceses across our global Communion greet our sisters and brothers in Christ throughout the Anglican Communion on this most Holy Day, Good Friday. On this day, when our Saviour poured out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-bishops-living-down-to-expectations-hijack-holy-week-to-denounce-global-warming\/\">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":[163],"tags":[2156],"class_list":["post-22755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warming","tag-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22755","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=22755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}