{"id":27596,"date":"2019-08-31T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=27596"},"modified":"2019-08-31T10:00:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T14:00:53","slug":"justin-welby-apologises-on-behalf-of-anglican-jihadists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/justin-welby-apologises-on-behalf-of-anglican-jihadists\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Welby apologises on behalf of Anglican Jihadists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not that there are any, but you never know: Welby\u2019s irritating elevation of reconciliation <\/em>to the status of demigod could end up driving the most mild-mannered curate to the brink of frenzied barbarism.<\/p>\n

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"\"The Archbishop of Canterbury said all religions and their leaders must own up to extremist activities within their faith and examine which of their traditional teachings enable extremists to commit evil.<\/p>\n

Rev. Justin Welby, the figurehead of the worldwide Anglican Church, told interfaith leaders in Sri Lanka that accepting responsibility is key rather than disavowing an evildoer as not a good enough follower of a religion.<\/p>\n

Welby arrived in Sri Lanka on Thursday and first visited St. Sebastian\u2019s Church near the town of Negombo and paid homage to those killed in the Easter suicide bomb attacks blamed on Muslim extremists.<\/p>\n

Later Thursday, he met with Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim leaders.<\/p>\n

Discussion among faiths has become more difficult in the last 30 or 40 years and in every faith, including in Christianity, extremist attitudes have grown, he told the religious leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it is the duty of every religious tradition, for its leaders to resist extremism and to teach peaceful dialogue. So the first challenge to all of us is take responsibility,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf a Christian does something evil, it is not for me to say \u2018well they are not a real Christian\u2019; I have to ask myself \u2018what is within my faith tradition, our historic teaching that makes it easy for them to do that?\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not that there are any, but you never know: Welby\u2019s irritating elevation of reconciliation to the status of demigod could end up driving the most mild-mannered curate to the brink of frenzied barbarism. From here: The Archbishop of Canterbury said … 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":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justin-welby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27596","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=27596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}