I\u2019m sympathetic with those who\u2019ve been poisoned by so much wishy-washy faithy-ism that their dissent-detectors are set to 1 part per billion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Some day I might write more about my experiences in the Episcopal Church, a landscape of lush beautiful valleys cheek-by-jowl with arid chasms spray-painted green. And yes, I\u2019ve acquired a dissent-detector, and yes, it\u2019s got a hair trigger. It\u2019s a defense mechanism of sorts, and it\u2019s a problem: the false positives can make it difficult to deal with perfectly orthodox Catholics simply because they use words in a way I\u2019ve learned to suspect.<\/p>\n
Or, to put it another way, not everything that seems to breathe fire is a dragon.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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