{"id":26304,"date":"2018-08-03T09:03:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T13:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=26304"},"modified":"2018-08-03T09:07:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T13:07:22","slug":"anglican-priest-declares-bible-is-just-some-silly-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-priest-declares-bible-is-just-some-silly-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican priest declares Bible is just some \u201csilly words\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most Anglican clergy go to enormous lengths to torture the plain language of Scripture until it concedes that there really is nothing wrong with homosexual activity.<\/p>\n<p>Rev Clifford Hall in Barbados has taken a different approach: he told marchers in the local pride parade that what the Bible says is irrelevant because it is just some \u201c<em>silly words written in a book thousands of years ago\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Clifford has come out of the closet and openly stated what most of his fellow clergy secretly think of the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/world\/2018\/august\/anglican-priest-denounced-for-telling-gays-the-bible-is-just-silly-words\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26305\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sillywords_hdv.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sillywords_hdv.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sillywords_hdv-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sillywords_hdv-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sillywords_hdv-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At a gay pride parade last week, Father Clifford Hall told marchers that nothing can stop their movement, &#8220;&#8230;legions of Pharisees won&#8217;t stop it&#8230; the roaring lion won&#8217;t stop it. And some silly words written in a book thousands of years ago won&#8217;t stop it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His words were met by loud applause from parade attendees. Hall also told them they were accepted into the &#8220;flock of Christ&#8221; and that God is willing to give them the Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>He also claimed that homosexuality has &#8220;always been part of the natural order of things.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Anglican clergy go to enormous lengths to torture the plain language of Scripture until it concedes that there really is nothing wrong with homosexual activity. Rev Clifford Hall in Barbados has taken a different approach: he told marchers in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-priest-declares-bible-is-just-some-silly-words\/\">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":17,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[2538],"class_list":["post-26304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality-and-the-church","tag-rev-clifford-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26304","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=26304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}