{"id":8217,"date":"2010-04-25T19:21:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T23:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=8217"},"modified":"2010-04-25T19:21:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T23:21:43","slug":"you-cant-advertise-gods-love-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/you-cant-advertise-gods-love-here\/","title":{"rendered":"You can\u2019t advertise God\u2019s love here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Hilda\u2019s Anglican Church in Oakville has a yearly garage sale; it\u2019s not a normal garage sale, though, because no money is collected for the items. The message to the Oakville community is that, just as the items are free, so is God\u2019s love for us and so is the gift of eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>There is a Yahoo Group called <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/oakvillefreecycle\/\" target=\"_blank\">oakvillefreecycle<\/a> where used articles are exchanged free of charge; we thought it would be a good idea to advertise St. Hilda\u2019s free garage sale there. <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/oakvillefreecycle\/message\/45556\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a> is the post as it was originally written (you have to join the group to see it):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Free Market<\/span><br \/>\nJoin us for our &#8220;Free Market&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>An expression of God&#8217;s free gift to us.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many items , books, toys, clothes, household items all free!<\/p>\n<p>St. Hilda&#8217;s ANIC Church<br \/>\n1258 Rebecca Street<br \/>\nOakville On.<br \/>\n905-827-3711<\/p>\n<p>Sat. May 15, 2010<\/p>\n<p>9:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The moderator of the group removed the line that I have in bold (it was not bold in the original post). No explanation, apology or reason; just commonplace secular illiberality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Hilda\u2019s Anglican Church in Oakville has a yearly garage sale; it\u2019s not a normal garage sale, though, because no money is collected for the items. The message to the Oakville community is that, just as the items are free, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/you-cant-advertise-gods-love-here\/\">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":[296],"tags":[2248,2257],"class_list":["post-8217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-hildas","tag-secularism","tag-st-hildas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8217","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=8217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}