{"id":5924,"date":"2009-10-10T00:14:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T04:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=5924"},"modified":"2009-10-10T00:14:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T04:14:52","slug":"rowan-williams-and-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rowan-williams-and-the-devil\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowan Williams and the Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rowan Williams strongly disagrees with the Iraq war and seems to think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/williams-cites-the-devil-in-in-attack-on-invasion-spin-1800676.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Devil was behind it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Williams cites the Devil in attack on invasion &#8216;spin&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The bitterness, recriminations and accusations of betrayal which enmeshed the Iraq war surfaced unexpectedly and powerfully at a memorial service for the fallen yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Williams said: &#8220;The invisible enemy may be hiding in the temptation to look for shortcuts in the search for justice \u2013 letting ends justify means, letting others rather than oneself carry the cost, denying the difficulties or the failures so as to present a good public face.&#8221; In this context, &#8220;the invisible enemy&#8221; denoted the Devil.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s a shame that Rowan can only spot the Devil at work in government when he is working to such dramatic effect in Rowan&#8217;s own denomination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rowan Williams strongly disagrees with the Iraq war and seems to think the Devil was behind it: Williams cites the Devil in attack on invasion &#8216;spin&#8217; The bitterness, recriminations and accusations of betrayal which enmeshed the Iraq war surfaced unexpectedly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rowan-williams-and-the-devil\/\">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":[14,277],"tags":[2030,2241],"class_list":["post-5924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican","category-rowan-williams","tag-anglican","tag-rowan-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924","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=5924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}