{"id":1241,"date":"2010-12-17T10:10:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2010-12-18T13:54:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T20:54:39","slug":"let%e2%80%99s-talk-about-%e2%80%9cblatant-sin%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=1241","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s talk about \u201cblatant sin\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>ELCA Bishop Chris Boerger (NW WA) stated that it \u201cis \u2018blatant sin\u2019 for human beings to fail to protect creation\u201d (ELCA News Release 11\/23\/2010).\u00a0 Boerger represented ELCA bishops as leaders from 56 denominations and faith-based organizations called on the US Senate to leave intact the power of the US Environmental Protection Agency to regulate pollutants.\u00a0\u00a0He noted that he has a responsibility to &#8220;his grandchildren&#8221; and to God on this issue.\u00a0(Boerger\u00a0is convener of the ELCA bishops&#8217; special interest group on the care of creation.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlatant\u201d sin!\u00a0 What\u2019s really blatant is:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"padding-left: 50px;\">\n<li>The breakdown of the nuclear      family:\u00a0 father-mother-child. Where is the ELCA witness to the fact      that children need fathers and mothers?\u00a0Is there an ELCA bishops\u2019      committee on the breakdown of\u00a0marriage and the family?<\/li>\n<li>The McVictim society. Where is      the ELCA promoting \u201cresponsibility\u201d so that children will be able to      survive in the real world?\u00a0Is there an ELCA bishops\u2019 committee on the      collapse into our McVictim society?<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0exploding national      debt.\u00a0Where is the ELCA\u2019s concern for the children and grandchildren      whose lives will be limited by this debt?\u00a0Is there an ELCA bishops\u2019      committee on the burden of the US national debt on future      generations?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Yes, let\u2019s talk about \u201creally blatant sin.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELCA Bishop Chris Boerger (NW WA) stated that it \u201cis \u2018blatant sin\u2019 for human beings to fail to protect creation\u201d (ELCA News Release 11\/23\/2010).\u00a0 Boerger represented ELCA bishops as leaders from 56 denominations and faith-based organizations called on the US Senate to leave intact the power of the US Environmental Protection Agency to regulate pollutants.\u00a0\u00a0He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}