{"id":5235,"date":"2009-08-15T10:57:15","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T14:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=5235"},"modified":"2009-08-15T10:57:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T14:57:15","slug":"united-church-of-canada-im-so-sorry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/united-church-of-canada-im-so-sorry\/","title":{"rendered":"United Church of Canada: I\u2019m so sorry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judging by its  40th General Council, the <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/np\/blogs\/holy-post\/archive\/2009\/08\/14\/the-united-church-s-uncertain-future.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">United Church of Canada has become<\/a> a concoction of self-loathing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Apologies were offered first to aboriginals forced to attend residential schools in Canada<\/p>\n<p>There was formal recognition this week of an apology made in June, for the church\u2019s confiscation of Japanese-Canadian property during the Second World War.<\/p>\n<p>We confess that the church, too, was tainted by the prejudices and fears of that era, and that even best intentions were warped by often-subtle forms of racism.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sorry,\u201d offered a church official. \u201cIf I said something that sounded like an accusation, I apologize for that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>anti-Christian \u2013 no, make that anti-God:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gretta Vosper is the minister at West Hill United Church in Toronto and author of With or Without God: Why the way we live is more important than what we believe. She explains that she doesn\u2019t refer to God anymore \u201cbecause there is no single meaning for the word.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>lunatic-fringe, gaia worshipping, gobbledygook spouting eco-bigots bent on  making David Suzuki look moderate:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The kind of old assumptions of the United Church are falling away,\u201d answered Russell Daye, an ordained minister from the Maritimes. \u201cNew archetypes are starting to emerge,\u201d he added. \u201cI think we\u2019re finding a language that is grounded in Earth and some kind of eco-feminism, in a way\u2026I think our new paradigm, if you want to use that, is going to be \u2018wholographic.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>thinly disguised <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/np\/blogs\/holy-post\/archive\/2009\/08\/14\/united-church-puts-anti-israel-resolutions-on-hold.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">anti-Semites<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hoping to stop a fire from spreading through their ranks, delegates at a major United Church of Canada conference decided on Thursday to put on hold a proposed boycott of Israel and to side-step anti-Israel resolutions put forward by church activists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What is truly baffling, though, is that the United Church is <em>dwindling, <\/em>having lost half its members since 1965; why is that, one wonders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judging by its 40th General Council, the United Church of Canada has become a concoction of self-loathing: Apologies were offered first to aboriginals forced to attend residential schools in Canada There was formal recognition this week of an apology made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/united-church-of-canada-im-so-sorry\/\">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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[2278],"class_list":["post-5235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-united-church","tag-united-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235","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=5235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}