{"id":28977,"date":"2021-04-30T13:41:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T17:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=28977"},"modified":"2021-04-30T13:41:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T17:41:58","slug":"take-your-vaccine-says-the-world-council-of-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/take-your-vaccine-says-the-world-council-of-churches\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Take your vaccine&#8221; says the World Council of Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before I start, let me be clear: I am not trying to convince anyone not to take a vaccine. The choice is yours and I have no wish to influence anyone.<\/p>\n<p>The WCC, however, does think it\u2019s the church\u2019s job to convince people to be vaccinated:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/wcc.jpg\" width=\"2304\" height=\"1683\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Is the new term for clergy \u201cfaith actors\u201d? I didn\u2019t know that. We can only assume it\u2019s because Christian clergy see themselves as thespians playing a role rather than the genuine article.<\/p>\n<p>We all suffer from a fatal disease. It\u2019s called \u201csin&#8221;. There is no vaccine against it. The solution is Jesus. The church has forgotten that that is its primary message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I start, let me be clear: I am not trying to convince anyone not to take a vaccine. The choice is yours and I have no wish to influence anyone. The WCC, however, does think it\u2019s the church\u2019s job &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/take-your-vaccine-says-the-world-council-of-churches\/\">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":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2636],"tags":[1618],"class_list":["post-28977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","tag-wcc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28977","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=28977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}