{"id":28139,"date":"2020-04-23T08:42:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T12:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=28139"},"modified":"2020-04-23T08:44:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T12:44:49","slug":"make-canada-cold-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/make-canada-cold-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Canada cold again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was earth day, the day batty Anglicans try to convince us that nature is on our side, if only we would leave it alone.<\/p>\n

April in Oakville has been colder than usual this year; it snowed a few days ago. It\u2019s not cold enough for Anglicans, though:<\/p>\n

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Just to reinforce the virtues of freezing to death, these two Anglican ladies want us to stop using the only resource we have that prevents Canadians turning into winter pillars of ice: fossil fuels:<\/p>\n

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No wonder so many secularists regard Christians as irrational crackpots: many of us are.<\/p>\n

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

The global climate emergency has reached a new level of public awareness in recent years, spurred by phenomena such as the Fridays for Future movement\u2014youth climate strikes\u2014led by Greta Thunberg. Recently, scientists cited climate change as a factor in the unprecedented intensity of bushfires in Australia in 2019-20.<\/p>\n

In the face of this crisis, Archbishop Linda Nicholls, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, has called on the church to take action on climate change, calling stewardship of the earth and the care of creation \u201ca core responsibility of our faith.\u201d The primate compares concern of young people for the future of their planet with the fear of nuclear annihilation she experienced growing up during the Cold War.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe question,\u201d she asks, \u201cis how do we proclaim that vision of creation as a gift of God that we are called to steward and that we should be at the very forefront of those that are fighting for it?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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