{"id":1549,"date":"2009-12-12T01:11:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T01:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2009-12-12T01:11:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T01:11:18","slug":"nothing_but_sex_please_were_vi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1549","title":{"rendered":"Nothing but sex please, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re vicars . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This guy, Richard Morrison, of the Times (UK) puts it all into perspective very well in his commentary, entitled, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/columnists\/richard_morrison\/article6948804.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Nothing but sex please, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re vicars . . .<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\nHis concluding paragraph (I recommend reading the whole thing!): <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The tragedy for the Church is that it is missing a huge opportunity. There are millions of young people out there who are disaffected from mainstream politics but equally dissatisfied with the mindless consumerism and callous selfishness of modern life. You can see that from the numbers flocking to espouse green causes, or to work for charities this Christmas. With so many youngsters thinking deeply about what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s right and wrong for the world, <em><strong>this should be a golden age for Christianity<\/strong><\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the most revolutionary of religions. But while the Church renders itself a laughing-stock over sex, it hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t got a hope of converting the young. At the moment some leading clerics come across as befrocked weirdos with one-track minds. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not talking about their belief in God.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guy, Richard Morrison, of the Times (UK) puts it all into perspective very well in his commentary, entitled, &#8220;Nothing but sex please, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re vicars . . .&#8221; His concluding paragraph (I recommend reading the whole thing!): The tragedy for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1549\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24,20,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican","category-generations","category-post-modern","category-the-episcopal-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}