{"id":6927,"date":"2010-01-02T15:46:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T20:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=6927"},"modified":"2010-01-02T15:46:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T20:46:09","slug":"the-anglican-church-of-canada-engulfed-in-relativism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-anglican-church-of-canada-engulfed-in-relativism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anglican Church of Canada: engulfed in relativism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canon Harold Munn, writing in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/issues\/2010\/136\/jan\/01\/article\/it-was-the-holy-book-to-him\/?cHash=02c433a1f2\" target=\"_blank\">Anglican Journal<\/a> is happy to let people think of God is any way they choose:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cNot,\u201d I was quick to add, \u201cthat it\u2019s necessary to believe in God as an external being watching us\u2014there are a variety of ways of thinking about this\u2014for some people it\u2019s more like deep goodness, or deep reality. But however we imagine it, it\u2019s certainly been present and working through us as we re-design systems to serve those in need. What\u2019s happened is quite wonderful. And I just wanted to say so.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He\u2019s also happy to let people think just about anything can be a <em>\u201choly book\u201d:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI stood before the judge, and she said, \u2018What\u2019s that?\u2019 I held it out for her to see. \u2018Looks like an Act,\u2019 she said. \u2018What Act?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the Canada Health Act. <strong>It\u2019s my holy book<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is my holy book. It says there is no distinction between rich and poor. Everyone deserves to be well. <strong>That\u2019s holy to me<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And, since the health act is holy and God is any creation of our choosing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Canada Health Act is how God is experienced by a senior government administrator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Altogether a fine summary of the theological sophistication of the ACoC: forget all the trite nonsense like, <em>In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. <\/em>For Anglicans in the 21st C<em>, in the beginning &#8211; well around 1984 &#8211; was the Canada Health Act and the Trudeau was with the Canada Health act and the Trudeau was with God and the Canada Health act was God.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canon Harold Munn, writing in the Anglican Journal is happy to let people think of God is any way they choose: \u201cNot,\u201d I was quick to add, \u201cthat it\u2019s necessary to believe in God as an external being watching us\u2014there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-anglican-church-of-canada-engulfed-in-relativism\/\">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":[15,16],"tags":[2031,2032],"class_list":["post-6927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-angst","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-angst","tag-anglican-church-of-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6927","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=6927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}