{"id":8037,"date":"2010-04-06T18:39:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T22:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=8037"},"modified":"2010-04-06T18:39:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T22:39:41","slug":"why-are-churches-really-being-closed-in-the-diocese-of-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/why-are-churches-really-being-closed-in-the-diocese-of-bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are churches really being closed in the Diocese of BC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reason the Anglican Church of Canada is coming apart at the seams is that it still adheres (rather tenuously, I suspect) to the historic doctrine of original sin \u2013 so says Rev. Derek Dunwoody in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bc.anglican.ca\/content\/DPApril2010WEB.pdf\">august organ<\/a> (page 8 ) of the Diocese of BC:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is obvious that the majority of Canadians have long ago given up buying into the mindset required by the concept of Original Sin. So, I would add, have many if not most of the remaining members of the Diocese of British Columbia. We have outgrown our allegiance to this capricious, petty and easily offended God. The leadership of the diocese needs to recognize this fact and cease to blast us with a stentorian old paradigm style of evangelistic rhetoric.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So there you have it: the Diocese of BC should toss out original sin, then we don\u2019t need salvation or atonement or Jesus dying on the cross or Jesus&#8217; resurrection or churches in which to worship him. We might as well close <em>all<\/em> the churches \u2013 British Columbia: the first sin-free province in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reason the Anglican Church of Canada is coming apart at the seams is that it still adheres (rather tenuously, I suspect) to the historic doctrine of original sin \u2013 so says Rev. Derek Dunwoody in the august organ (page &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/why-are-churches-really-being-closed-in-the-diocese-of-bc\/\">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":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[2104],"class_list":["post-8037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-bc","tag-diocese-of-bc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8037","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=8037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}