{"id":46288,"date":"2014-10-09T17:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/f_things_betsy_childs-the_church_of_england_and_moral_hazard\/"},"modified":"2014-10-09T17:00:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T17:00:01","slug":"f_things_betsy_childs-the_church_of_england_and_moral_hazard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46288","title":{"rendered":"(F Things) Betsy Childs&#8211;The Church of England and Moral Hazard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I doubt anyone in the Church of England who knows Rev. Stephen Sizer was surprised that he would attend a conference critical of Israel. Sizer, the Vicar of Christ Church in Virginia Water, Surrey, is an outspoken critic of what he calls Christian Zionism, that is, Christian support for the nation-state of Israel on theological grounds.<\/p>\n<p>What is surprising is that a vicar of the Church of England would attend a conference in Iran to speak to a group of anti-Semites on the subject of the Zionist lobby in England. Other attendees of the New Horizon conference in Tehran include a long list of Holocaust deniers and 9\/11 truthers. The conference included a panel discussion called \u201cMossad\u2019s Role in the 9\/11 Coup d\u2019Etat\u201d\u009d with the subheading \u201c9\/11 and the Holocaust as pro-Zionist \u201d\u02dcPublic Myths.\u2019\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/firstthoughts\/2014\/10\/the-church-of-england-and-moral-hazard\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I doubt anyone in the Church of England who knows Rev. Stephen Sizer was surprised that he would attend a conference critical of Israel. Sizer, the Vicar of Christ Church in Virginia Water, Surrey, is an outspoken critic of what<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46288\">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":[36,48,40,50,42,74,389,168,144,161,564,203,435,155,184,151,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-inter-faith-relations","category-iran","category-middle-east","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46288","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=46288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}