{"id":1085,"date":"2012-01-21T23:43:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T23:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2012-01-22T12:28:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T12:28:39","slug":"the-primate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/2012\/01\/the-primate-crisis.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Primate Crisis&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Primatology is on my mind today. Why? Because within only a few hours of having met a young woman who studies monkeys for a living, friend Paul Dominiak sent me this cartoon featuring an ersatz David Attenborough on the &#8220;Primate Crisis.&#8221; \u00a0(Paul is the chaplain of Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge University and you can find his sermons here: http:\/\/www.trinitycollegechapel.blogspot.com\/.)<\/p>\n<p>I figure, if we can&#8217;t laugh at ourselves and our sacred cows- in this case, the funny, sometimes primitive ways we religious types go about organizing ourselves and resolving disputes within our &#8220;shrinking habitat&#8221; (as an Attenborough voice-over puts it)- then how will anyone take us seriously? \u00a0Did I add that this is the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity? \u00a0Christ, have mercy on us.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"David Attenborough&#039;s - Primate Crisis\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JTa0PdrrT4c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primatology is on my mind today. 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