{"id":17944,"date":"2010-02-16T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/dutch_atheist_pastor_wont_face_discipline\/"},"modified":"2010-02-16T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T11:02:00","slug":"dutch_atheist_pastor_wont_face_discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17944","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Atheist Pastor Won&#39;t Face Discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A self-proclaimed atheist can continue to serve as a local pastor of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, and will not be disciplined for his controversial position on how to describe God.<\/p>\n<p>A special assembly of Zierikzee, a regional church body tasked with investigating the theological statements of Pastor Klaas Hendrikse, said on Feb. 3 that its work is completed.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to allow Hendrikse to continue working as a pastor followed the advice of a panel that said the pastor\u2019s views \u201care not of sufficient weight to damage the foundations of the church.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ideas of Hendrikse are theologically not new, and are in keeping with the liberal tradition that is an integral part of our church,\u201d\u009d the special panel concluded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/news.php?viewStory=15626\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A self-proclaimed atheist can continue to serve as a local pastor of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, and will not be disciplined for his controversial position on how to describe God. A special assembly of Zierikzee, a regional church<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17944\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,50,42,425,200,435,154,155,184,413,455],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-atheism","category-europe","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-reformed","category-the-netherlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}