{"id":27293,"date":"2019-07-01T13:38:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T17:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=27293"},"modified":"2019-07-01T19:21:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T23:21:25","slug":"justin-welby-comes-down-from-the-mountain-with-10-digital-commandments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/justin-welby-comes-down-from-the-mountain-with-10-digital-commandments\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Welby comes down from the mountain with 10 digital commandments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England has written 10 commandments for the digital age; that should really be \u201c0000 1010 commandments for the digital age\u201d but we\u2019ll let that slide.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27294\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ccelebritiesfotoTm-graohic-10-Commandments-v5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ccelebritiesfotoTm-graohic-10-Commandments-v5.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ccelebritiesfotoTm-graohic-10-Commandments-v5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ccelebritiesfotoTm-graohic-10-Commandments-v5-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Church is encouraging people to sign their agreement to this digital charter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/terms-and-conditions\/our-digital-charter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Violators will have their rudeness <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/terms-and-conditions\/our-social-media-community-guidelines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">summarily expunged<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Church\u2019s and Archbishops\u2019 Communications teams may take action if they receive complaints or spot inappropriate, unsuitable or offensive material posted to the national social media accounts. This may include deleting comments, blocking users or reporting comments as appropriate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Justin Welby has conveniently summed up the 10 digital commandments in this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Social media has transformed the way we live our lives. As Christians we are called to engage in a way which is shaped by the example of Jesus.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I found this very inspiring so I though I would try it out. Here goes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But woe to you, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people\u2019s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in. Woe to you, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Woe to you, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.<\/p>\n<p>Woe to you, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people\u2019s bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.<\/p>\n<p>You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m looking at you, Anglican Church of Canada bishops.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think I\u2019m getting the hang of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England has written 10 commandments for the digital age; that should really be \u201c0000 1010 commandments for the digital age\u201d but we\u2019ll let that slide. The Church is encouraging people to sign their agreement to this digital &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/justin-welby-comes-down-from-the-mountain-with-10-digital-commandments\/\">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":[85],"tags":[2186],"class_list":["post-27293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england","tag-justin-welby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27293","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=27293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}