{"id":4579,"date":"2009-06-09T14:43:18","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T18:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=4579"},"modified":"2009-06-09T14:43:18","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T18:43:18","slug":"the-cure-for-the-church-of-laodicea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-cure-for-the-church-of-laodicea\/","title":{"rendered":"The cure for the church of Laodicea"},"content":{"rendered":"

There can be little doubt that Christianity is under attack in the West. Here are some recent examples:
\nHow to offend Atheist cleaners<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Atheist cleaners could sue Christian care homes over crucifixes, warn bishops<\/p>\n

Church care homes could be forced to remove crucifixes from their walls in case they offend “atheist cleaners” under the new Equality Bill, Catholic bishops have warned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The answer would be for the Christian care homes to hire only Christians \u2013 but that would probably run afoul of the Equality laws.<\/p>\n

A Christian mother is refused a choice of foster parents<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Catholic mother launches legal battle after son placed with gay foster parents<\/p>\n

The mother of a 10-year-old Catholic boy has launched a legal battle after a council placed him with homosexual foster carers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A street preacher is harassed by police:<\/p>\n

[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kdvyOJCAf8A]<\/p>\n

The outlook for Christians appears bleak: Christianity is being driven out of public life, attempts are being made to muzzle Christians, there is little tolerance from a society that will tolerate just about anything else and mainline church leaders have, for the most part, given up on religion and taken up politics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The good thing is, pretty soon the only way a Christian will come out<\/em> is if he is serious about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There can be little doubt that Christianity is under attack in the West. Here are some recent examples: How to offend Atheist cleaners: Atheist cleaners could sue Christian care homes over crucifixes, warn bishops Church care homes could be forced … 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":[75,307],"tags":[2080,2267],"class_list":["post-4579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-the-fall-of-the-west","tag-christianity","tag-the-fall-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579","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=4579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}