{"id":24220,"date":"2016-07-20T23:30:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T03:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=24220"},"modified":"2016-07-21T00:01:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T04:01:08","slug":"the-final-resting-place-of-the-anglican-church-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-final-resting-place-of-the-anglican-church-of-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"The final resting place of the Anglican Church of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s difficult to predict when and how the end will come but here is a preview of the eventual demise of the sorry mess that was once a Christian denomination.<\/p>\n

St. Matthews Anglican Church in Quebec City has been closed since the late 1970s. Its earthly remains have been documented on a website called, by virtue of what must be a prophetic gift on the part of the owner, Lost Anglican Churches<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The \u201cVintage Episcopal Anglican Church Sign\u201d that once advertised the parish can be bought as an historical curiosity on craigslist<\/a> for $350:<\/p>\n

\"Graig\"<\/p>\n

Apparently, the church is now a library.<\/p>\n

All this brings to mind the last scene from the original Planet of the Apes film where our hero kneels in disbelief before the Statue of Liberty buried in sand, saying something along the lines of: \u201cyou maniacs, God damn you all to Hell\u201d.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s difficult to predict when and how the end will come but here is a preview of the eventual demise of the sorry mess that was once a Christian denomination. St. Matthews Anglican Church in Quebec City has been closed … Continue reading →<\/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":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2032],"class_list":["post-24220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24220","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=24220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}