The Anglican Church of Canada hates burning fossil fuels, preferring instead to power both its theology and thuribles from smudging smoke.
Since the ACoC believes oil pipelines are built on stolen native land, its hard to escape the conclusion that all its churches are built on stolen native land, too. That must mean the ACoC is going to give it all back to the natives from whom it was stolen. It will be a cold day in synod – or hell – before that happens.
From here:
Church supports First Nation Canadians in battle against new oil and gas pipe
A major new oil and gas pipeline through the British Columbia region of Canada has received government backing despite protests from indigenous peoples groups. The Tsleil-Waututh First Nation described this week’s decision as “the beginning of a long battle” to stop the project. Last month, the Anglican Church of Canada’s Council of General Synod (Cogs) passed a resolution by consensus in which they expressed “their support for Indigenous peoples and their desire to grow and deepen that trust both within the church and without; in asserting and advocating their right to free, prior and informed consent concerning the stewardship of traditional Indigenous lands and water rights, and in acknowledging and responding to their calls for solidarity.”
The liberal left and their paradoxical pronouncements never make sense, and never will. The truth doesn’t matter. It’s all relative.
“Quiet Terry, you don’t know what you’re talking about.”
There is clearly a missing link in the logic on a number of these matters. My own feeling is that the further they push left, the more they lose the right flank, and the less there is a balancing voice (that they are willing to listen to), to call them on some of these glaring inconsistencies.
Tony Campolo wrote a cringe-worthy op-ed in the NYT earlier this week in which he followed an attempt at non-partisanship with the statement that ‘the heart leans left’. The heart may lean left, but surely the mind has a role to play in our faith as well?
A wise man once wrote —
“If you are not a liberal when you are under 25, you don’t have a heart. If you are not a conservative by the time you’re 35, you don’t have a brain.”
Who is the ultimate owner of the land? God or humans? Humans are only stewards.
AND I KNOW for a fact- Indians are poor stewards of anything- land-animals- themselves..
Indeed, regardless of race, not everybody is a good steward.
But the Indians are touted as “stewards of the land”- by themselves and the white guilt people
Where is the ACC’s protest of “their (Indigenous) free, prior and informed consent” with respect to that most natural of Nature’s laws: procreation; within marriage as The Great GOD of all Nature ordained in His Creation?
The Indigenous ACC Bishops and their People have it right – right as in + Genesis.
And how many gas stations are on reserves and where do they get the evil petroleum? Hypocrites!
Your link doesn’t work. Probably you meant these links:
http://www.rezgas.com/bc.php
http://www.rezgas.com
This is left wing politicisizing of the Anglican church of Canada. Nothing new here people.
But I do wonder, when will the leadership of the AcoC wake up to the fact that people do not attend their church for the left wing politics? That people are leaving in an effort to find a Church that remains Faithful to God.
It would be nice for humans to live in an air, noise, land, water, chemical pollution-free environment. Some people call this heaven on earth. Where can we locate it?
I used to drive in the early nineties to the Six Nations reserve outside of Brantford Ontario to buy much cheaper gasoline and cigarettes. The only thing remotely progressive or left wing I saw there was the occasional young Mohawk man brandishing a Chinese copy of an SKS semi-automatic assault rifle complete with folding bayonet attached to it to ward off those pesky Ontario Provincial Police (or a competitive aboriginal criminal gang) from interfering with their right to do whatever they wanted to do to make a Canadian dollar on their ancestral land.