{"id":23224,"date":"2015-08-05T22:28:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T02:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=23224"},"modified":"2015-08-05T22:51:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T02:51:48","slug":"i-disbelieve-help-thou-mine-belief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/i-disbelieve-help-thou-mine-belief\/","title":{"rendered":"I disbelieve; help thou mine belief."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The disbelief in which United Church minister, Rev. Gretta Vosper, revels puts to shame the sincerely cherished uncertainties harboured by most the devoutly doubting Anglican cleric. Sad to say, her pious dubieties have become too much for even the United Church of Canada: they may defrock her. Never fear Rev. Gretta; frocked or not, you could almost certainly find employment plying your insights of incertitude on one of the many Anglican <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglican.ca\/news\/conversations-2014-clergy-under-40-to-gather-in-montreal-2\/3006873\/\" target=\"_blank\">facilitated conversation<\/a> circuits.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23225\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/gretta.jpg\" alt=\"gretta\" width=\"155\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/gretta.jpg 155w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/gretta-141x300.jpg 141w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/>From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/news\/religion\/unprecedented-united-church-probe-could-lead-to-removal-of-non-believing-toronto-minister\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>TORONTO \u2014 An ordained United Church of Canada minister who believes in neither God nor the Bible said Wednesday she is prepared to fight an unprecedented attempt to boot her from the pulpit for her beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview at her church in the Toronto suburb of West Hill, Rev. Gretta Vosper said congregants support her view that how you live is more important than what you believe in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe in \u2026 the god called God,\u201d she said. \u201cUsing the word gets in the way of sharing what I want to share.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vosper, 57, who was ordained in 1993 and joined her east-end church in 1997, said the idea of an interventionist, supernatural being on which so much church doctrine is based belongs to an outdated world view.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s important, she says, is that her views hearken to Christianity\u2019s beginnings, before the focus shifted from how one lived to doctrinal belief in God, Jesus and the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs the Bible really the word of God? Was Jesus a person?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s mythology. We build a faith tradition upon it which shifted to find belief more important than how we lived.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The disbelief in which United Church minister, Rev. Gretta Vosper, revels puts to shame the sincerely cherished uncertainties harboured by most the devoutly doubting Anglican cleric. 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