{"id":22827,"date":"2015-04-16T14:04:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T18:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=22827"},"modified":"2015-04-16T14:13:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T18:13:43","slug":"an-earth-day-message-from-fred-hiltz-and-susan-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/an-earth-day-message-from-fred-hiltz-and-susan-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"An Earth Day message from Fred Hiltz and Susan Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglican.ca\/news\/earth-day-statement-by-the-primate-and-bishop-johnson\/3004335\/\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let us remember our first calling as human beings is caring for the Earth. So sacred is this calling that as Lutherans worldwide mark the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation in 2017 with an overall theme \u201cLiberated by God\u2019s Grace,\u201d one of the subthemes is \u201cCreation\u2014not for sale.\u201d So sacred is this calling to Anglicans worldwide that they hold among their Marks of Mission a commitment \u201cto strive to safeguard the integrity of creation and to sustain and renew the life of the earth.\u201d This mark of mission is now reflected in the vows made in baptism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t dislike pollution any less than Fred Hiltz but, surely, \u201c<em>our first calling as human beings\u201d<\/em> \u2013 or, at least as Christians \u2013 is to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with the unsaved, not to <em>\u201ccare for the earth.\u201d<\/em> The earth is not a sentient living thing made in God\u2019s image, possessing a soul whose eternal destiny rests on whether or not it has received Christ\u2019s free gift of salvation. It is just like the rest of the universe, a system which is subject to entropy; it is running down, degenerating gradually into disorder until God remakes it as part of the New Heavens and New Earth.<\/p>\n<p>That is, unless, as appears to be the case for the purveyors of this Earth Day Statement, your god is Gaia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Let us remember our first calling as human beings is caring for the Earth. So sacred is this calling that as Lutherans worldwide mark the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation in 2017 with an overall theme \u201cLiberated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/an-earth-day-message-from-fred-hiltz-and-susan-johnson\/\">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":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[510,2121,2145],"class_list":["post-22827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earth-day","tag-bishop-susan-johnson","tag-earth-day","tag-fred-hiltz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22827","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=22827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}