{"id":8544,"date":"2010-05-12T12:35:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T16:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=8544"},"modified":"2010-05-12T12:35:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T16:35:58","slug":"the-anglican-church-of-canada-is-a-laughingstock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-anglican-church-of-canada-is-a-laughingstock\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anglican Church of Canada is a laughingstock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even in <a href=\"http:\/\/lonestarparson.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/ridiculously-false-statement.html\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ridiculously\u00a0 False Statement<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tom, of <a href=\"http:\/\/boomersandbs.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boomers<\/a> fame, sent me this quote from Mark Steyn:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian. If they no longer seem disposed to converting the unbelieving to Christ, they can at least convert them to the boggiest of soft-left clich\u00e9s, on the grounds that if Jesus were alive today he\u2019d most likely be a gay Anglican bishop in a committed relationship driving around in an environmentally friendly car with an \u201cArms are for Hugging\u201d sticker on the way to an interfaith dialogue with a Wiccan and a couple of Wahhabi imams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There is absolutely no truth, whatsoever, in Mr. Steyn&#8217;s absurd analysis of <a href=\"http:\/\/stillonpatrol.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451d88d69e2011571dc9420970b-800wi\" target=\"_blank\">Ms. Jefferts Schori&#8217;s thriving Episcopal Church<\/a> and its tiny cousin, the <a href=\"http:\/\/deathby1000papercuts.com\/2009\/02\/jesus-was-a-racist-the-anglican-church-of-canada-gives-clues\/\" target=\"_blank\">ACoC<\/a> (Anglican Church of Canada).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How cruel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even in Texas: Ridiculously\u00a0 False Statement Tom, of Boomers fame, sent me this quote from Mark Steyn: &#8220;Most mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian. If they no longer seem disposed to converting the unbelieving to Christ, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-anglican-church-of-canada-is-a-laughingstock\/\">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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[2031,2032],"class_list":["post-8544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-uncategorized","tag-anglican-angst","tag-anglican-church-of-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544","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=8544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}