{"id":4027,"date":"2009-05-03T22:39:44","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T03:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=4027"},"modified":"2009-05-03T22:39:44","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T03:39:44","slug":"and-to-think-i-used-to-find-god-of-concrete-god-of-steel-irritating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/and-to-think-i-used-to-find-god-of-concrete-god-of-steel-irritating\/","title":{"rendered":"And to think I used to find &quot;God of concrete, God of steel&quot; irritating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sin of idolatry is not confined to physical graven images; today we are much more likely to construct an abstract god who is an anthropomorphised version of us: provincially small-minded and consumed by the petty obsessions that dominate the culture-bound Western churches of the 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, we discover that a song has been commissioned to celebrate a god of the Anglican Consultative Council. It is entitled, <em>Lord of Our Diversity<\/em> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americananglican.org\/report-from-acc-14-day-two\" target=\"_blank\">goes like this<\/a> <em>(updated to include the whole thing):<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Lord of our diversity unite us all we pray<br \/>\nwelcome us to fellowship in your inclusive way<br \/>\nTeach us all to have respect to love and not deride<br \/>\nSave us from the challenges of selfishness and pride<br \/>\nSanctify our listening and help us get the sense<br \/>\nof perplexing arguments before we take offence<br \/>\nTeach us that opinions which at first might seem quite strange<br \/>\nmay reflect the glory of your great creative range<br \/>\nMay the Holy Spirit now show us the way preferred<br \/>\nMay we follow the commands of your authentic word.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This has it all: diversity, inclusion and relativism; a cornucopia of drivel worthy of a place in the next Anglican hymn book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sin of idolatry is not confined to physical graven images; today we are much more likely to construct an abstract god who is an anthropomorphised version of us: provincially small-minded and consumed by the petty obsessions that dominate the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/and-to-think-i-used-to-find-god-of-concrete-god-of-steel-irritating\/\">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":[14],"tags":[2030,2031],"class_list":["post-4027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican","tag-anglican","tag-anglican-angst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027","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=4027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}