{"id":9159,"date":"2011-10-22T23:06:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T12:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=9159"},"modified":"2011-10-22T23:09:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T12:09:38","slug":"questions-the-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/10\/22\/questions-the-pub\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions @ the Pub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God must love us &#8211; He made beer!&#8221; was the theme of a &#8220;Q&amp;A with the Bishop&#8221; at a local\u00a0pub recently.\u00a0I responded to\u00a0a range of questions\u00a0including &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where has the love gone?<\/li>\n<li>Why do good people get the raw prawn?<\/li>\n<li>If God is all loving and compassionate, how can he allow children to suffer disease, torture and abuse?<\/li>\n<li>Why are people so unkind to one another?<\/li>\n<li>What is love? Is family more important than the church?<\/li>\n<li>God helps those who help themselves, God help those that help themselves to my stuff&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s the difference between a bishop and a pope?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s the difference between Church of England and Christian?<\/li>\n<li>Why bring religion into the pub? I just want a beer in peace!<\/li>\n<li>Which God is the correct one, Jewish, Muslim, Christian or Jehovah?<\/li>\n<li>Which religion is the correct one?<\/li>\n<li>Why does the church actively protect people that appear to be working against the interest of children? Namely apparent protection of pedophiles?<\/li>\n<li>How can the church justify its million in cash assets when there so many starving?<\/li>\n<li>If all different religions got together you could call them the God squad.<\/li>\n<li>Why do we accept the boat people when we have Australians suffering? They get more than Aust. pensioners for what??<\/li>\n<li>Is the separation of church and state still a priority for the Anglican Church or is there a place for the church in politics i.e. social advocacy?<\/li>\n<li>Honour they Father and thy mother?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks to the participants for a stimulating and civil conversation.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of suffering is the number one question I am asked at pubs, schools, radio, churches. A helpful article is, <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/04\/23\/easter-the-meaning-of-suffering\/\">Easter\u00a0&amp; the\u00a0meaning of suffering<\/a>\u00a0and the series of articles on Suffering; see <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/10\/27\/christians-respond-to-suffering-1\/\">Christians respond to suffering #1<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God must love us &#8211; He made beer!&#8221; was the theme of a &#8220;Q&amp;A with the Bishop&#8221; at a local\u00a0pub recently.\u00a0I responded to\u00a0a range of questions\u00a0including &#8230; Where has the love gone? Why do good people get the raw prawn? &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/10\/22\/questions-the-pub\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9159"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9201,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions\/9201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}