Saturday, September 1, 2018

Wut?

The Episcopal News Service has disabled comments on its website. Here's their rationale:
"...increasingly, some voices have come to dominate the discussion, which at times has strayed from the stories themselves into theological and ideological arguments."
Yeah, who would expect theological arguments on a denominational webpage?

Again, the church's apparent motto is, "We all must have the same thoughts; we all must use the same words." It appears that some folks are violating that carefully constructed chimera*.

There are no theological/ideological arguments permitted in the church!  Also, there's no fighting in the war room!**

If the concern is about theological/ideological arguments, then who was it that originally injected those into Episcopal Church discourse?  Wait, wait, don't tell me.  Was it...The Episcopal Church?

When you launch a torpedo, always be aware that it can circle back on you.

*A thing that is hoped or wished for but in fact is illusory or impossible to achieve; synonyms: illusion, fantasy, delusion, dream, daydream, pipe dream, figment of the/one's imagination, castle in the air, mirage.

**Classical film reference.