tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post4711231868207339471..comments2023-12-15T21:49:46.651+01:00Comments on Pluralist Speaks: Theological Divide - and LiberalismPluralist (Adrian Worsfold)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01922153724523820866noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post-74933597589292980572008-01-11T15:43:00.000+01:002008-01-11T15:43:00.000+01:00That is interesting. When I was at Unitarian Colle...That is interesting. When I was at Unitarian College, at a time of my religious humanism that became a kind of humanist symbolic Paganism later on, I did not encounter the kind of rejection from people in other denominations at Luther King House (plenty from Unitarian chapels) because they knew who I was. I did not participate in the weekly eucharist after a few weeks, and there was a clarity about my position. Now I have shifted somewhat institutionally, I was rather reluctant to suggest the same sort of relationship, though I am still trying to develop the same sort of clarity about the liberalism I have now.Pluralist (Adrian Worsfold)https://www.blogger.com/profile/01922153724523820866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post-68482368125840805832008-01-11T10:13:00.000+01:002008-01-11T10:13:00.000+01:00Adrian, interesting article. If I could make just ...Adrian, interesting article. If I could make just one serious comment - I don't think you are the Conservative's 'worst nightmare'. In general, Conservatives prefer 'hot or cold' to 'lukewarm', not least on the basis of 'like recognizing like'. And so, as Richard Turnbull's comments indicated, the 'worst nightmare' is the person <I>least unlike</I> ourselves who is still quite 'wrong'. I think this cuts both ways in the current dispute, which is why the divisions within Evangelicalism have become so bitter. By contrast, I remember how in the early 1980s I got along fine with the gay Anglo-Catholic Father in the parish next to mine. We were so far apart, it was impossible for us to find anywhere to disagree!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03590979027426082714noreply@blogger.com