{"id":20154,"date":"2013-08-21T23:33:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T03:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=20154"},"modified":"2013-08-21T23:33:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T03:33:51","slug":"the-anglican-church-is-drunk-man-staggering-ever-closer-to-the-edge-of-a-cliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-anglican-church-is-drunk-man-staggering-ever-closer-to-the-edge-of-a-cliff\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anglican Church is drunk man staggering ever closer to the edge of a cliff"},"content":{"rendered":"

So says<\/a> the Archbishop of Canterbury:<\/p>\n

The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned that the Anglican church is tottering on the brink of disintegration amid disputes between liberals and traditionalists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At last someone has noticed. Sadly, although the prognosis is probably accurate, the diagnosis isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

The cause of the Anglican malaise has never been the fact that there are disputes between liberals and conservatives; the cause is simply that liberals have got it wrong.<\/p>\n

Justin Welby went on to note:<\/p>\n

In his most stark comments yet about divisions over issues such as homosexuality, the Most Rev Justin Welby said the Church was coming perilously close to plunging into a \u201cravine of intolerance\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cIntolerance\u201d isn\u2019t the problem either; misrepresenting Christianity \u2013 and that\u2019s what liberals in the homosexuality debate tend to do\u00a0 – is<\/em> intolerable.<\/p>\n

Yet he added that many of the issues over which different factions in the Church were fighting were \u201cincomprehensible\u201d to people outside it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Undoubtedly true; but the incomprehensibility of the debate doesn\u2019t mean \u2013 as Welby seems to imply \u2013 that both factions must be incorrect.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn one side is the steep fall into an absence of any core beliefs, a chasm where we lose touch with God, and thus we rely only on ourselves and our own message. On the other side there is a vast fall into a ravine of intolerance and cruel exclusion. It is for those who claim all truth, and exclude any who question.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The first sentence is a suitable epithet for North American Anglicanism. The second is a sure sign that Welby has been conned by liberals into believing that conservatives are intolerant and that making any demands of anyone renders a church exclusive<\/em>. The third appears to be a concession to contemporary relativism: truth is unknowable.<\/p>\n

At least one thing is correct: we are staggering close to the edge of a cliff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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