{"id":350,"date":"2008-01-03T09:11:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T13:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=350"},"modified":"2008-01-03T09:11:13","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T13:11:13","slug":"godly-snippets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=350","title":{"rendered":"Godly Snippets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>An interesting piece of spontaneous ritual here, &#34;from the Guardian:&#34;:http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/transport\/Story\/0,,2234023,00.html a story about a boy who woke up in hospital after a car crash and had to be told that three of his friends, who had been in the front seat, were dead. So the first thing he asked for was his mobile, so that he would text one dead friend &#34;Goodbye&#34;.<\/li>\n<li>And the latest in the astonishing unravelling of the global Anglican coup, organised to destroy the American Episcopal Church on the pretext of its open tolerance and even encouragement of homosexuals. I say &#34;the pretext&#34; without in any way wishing to deny the sincerity with which these people loathe gays. But there are other agendas, too, involved. Some of the plotters hate women priests; some hate all priests, because they are Calvinists. And  some of them feel that the Anglican Communion is soft on Islam and suspiciously pro-Palestinian. I suspect that that is why Peter Akinola, who in Nigeria, is quite close to a religious civil war with Islam, has announced his counter-Lambeth conference will be held in Jerusalem this summer. Now the Bishop of Jerusalem [&#34;has announced he was not consulted, and thinks this is a rotten idea.&#34;:http:\/\/www.j-diocese.org\/newsdetail.php?id=34] His boss, the Primate of the region, has also said he thinks it shouldn&rsquo;t happen in Jerusalem, and been slapped down with astonishing rudeness for his pains by Akinola. The point, of course, being that Christians in that part of the world are almost all Arab, and consequently hate the Jews and [&#34;have little time for Zionism.&#34;:http:\/\/www.religiousintelligence.co.uk\/news\/?NewsID=1391] Not many American evangelicals know this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting piece of spontaneous ritual here, &#34;from the Guardian:&#34;:http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/transport\/Story\/0,,2234023,00.html a story about a boy who woke up in hospital after a car crash and had to be told that three of his friends, who had been in the front &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=350\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=350\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}