{"id":2854,"date":"2009-02-17T22:06:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T03:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=2854"},"modified":"2009-02-17T22:06:01","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T03:06:01","slug":"paganism-in-the-diocese-of-niagara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/paganism-in-the-diocese-of-niagara\/","title":{"rendered":"Paganism in the Diocese of Niagara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever eager to jump on the latest cultural bandwagon, the Diocese of Niagara offers this thinly disguised <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanpolicy.org\/un\/thepaganroots.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Gaia worship<\/a> as part of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagara.anglican.ca\/green\/green_workshop.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Green Awakening<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The whole liturgy is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagara.anglican.ca\/green\/docs\/Earth%20Hour%20Liturgy%20_2_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>; this is the opening prayer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Opening Prayer<br \/>\n<\/em>One Beneath our toes<br \/>\nBeneath our shoes<br \/>\nBeneath floors<br \/>\nBeneath basement and cement and foundation<strong><br \/>\nAll We are still standing on holy ground<\/strong><br \/>\nOne Amidst cheerful chatter<br \/>\nTV drones and telephones<br \/>\nPlanes and trains<br \/>\nSirens, horns, and the squeal of tires<strong><br \/>\nAll We listen for the call of the Earth<\/strong><br \/>\nOne As square, grey scenery is photographed<br \/>\nAmidst trash, contamination, pits, pollution<br \/>\nWaste, seen and unseen<br \/>\nWe are tired people, grasping for energy<strong><br \/>\nAll We are still standing on holy ground<\/strong><br \/>\nOne Bike riders and gardeners whisper alternatives<br \/>\nas creation groans beneath the weight of waste and<br \/>\nexcess<br \/>\nBeneath even that sits holy ground<br \/>\nFirmly rooting all in the moving, shaping,<br \/>\nCleansing powers of creation,<br \/>\n<strong>All We listen for the call of the Earth<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What next, one wonders? Why this, of course:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=etvjzVVfBa4]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever eager to jump on the latest cultural bandwagon, the Diocese of Niagara offers this thinly disguised Gaia worship as part of their Green Awakening. The whole liturgy is here; this is the opening prayer: Opening Prayer One Beneath our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/paganism-in-the-diocese-of-niagara\/\">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":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[2111],"class_list":["post-2854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara","tag-diocese-of-niagara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854","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=2854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}