The Limits of Tolerance

http://episcopalmajority.blogspot.com/2007/05/limits-of-tolerance.html

[The Episcopal Majority] 31 May 2007--One of the most significant failures of modern progressive Episcopalians is the belief that the application of reason to any given conflict will ultimately prove effective in convincing our opponents of the correctness of our cause.

This is proved false again and again, of course; people are often irrational. But our own innate – sometimes arrogant – belief in the reasonableness of humanity and its susceptibility to what we perceive as rational discourse seems to have the ability to overwhelm the mountains of evidence to the contrary.

This is clearly the case in the current struggle within the Anglican Communion. The majority in the Episcopal Church continues to maintain a tolerant attitude to those within our own province and in Africa who have adopted a stance toward our actions that has profound echoes of the scapegoating and exclusion that the first Puritans practiced.

Having on a number of occasions been a victim of liberal Episcopal "tolerance" I must wonder if Mr. Nigel-Tabor and I live on the same planet!!