The Principles of Arrogance
06/17/2007
Reader's Viewpoint: The Very Rev. John R. Spencer

Anyone following events in The Episcopal Church (TEC) can observe certain unwavering principles of change that have been propagated, in one form or another, by those leading the charge of revolutionary innovation. I would summarize these principles as follows:

The Bible may offer guidance in some areas of life, but any scriptures that vary from current sociological and political presuppositions should be ignored as relics culturally conditioned by a now-antiquated cultural world view. We are therefore no longer bound by the authority of holy scripture, the teaching of the apostles, or the practice of catholic Christendom over the centuries. Gender no longer matters. The revolutionary changes we seek are matters of human rights and social justice. We in The Episcopal Church are better informed than those who went before in discerning God’s hidden plan for his Church. The Holy Spirit guides us and sets us free from the past, so all we do will be consistent with the will of God. If some in our church resist our prophetic changes, we will push the change ahead anyway to demonstrate the rightness of our views. Eventually the rest of the Anglican Communion will recognize our wisdom and imitate us.

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