Posted on 06/17/2005 7:38:32 AM PDT by sionnsar
Archbishop of Canterbury Reads Stand Firm
Stand Firm, Mississippi
6/16/2005
How else to explain this:
In a lecture to media professionals, politicians and church leaders at Lambeth Palace in London last night, Dr Williams wondered whether a balance could be struck between the professionalism of the classical media and the relative disorder of online communication.
"Professionalism of the classical media?" He must be talking about The New York Times and Newsweek. Or perhaps CBS News.
If the archbishop is right - and he may well be - then the only reason there's "paranoid fantasy, self-indulgent nonsense and dangerous bigotry" on the web - at least as far as the Anglican crisis goes - is because there continues to be a vacuum where his authority and decisiveness should be. Fools have rushed in where angels fear to tread.
Here's hoping that the next time the archbishop is in the mood for invective, he'll instead take a stand on something that's truly important. Like, say... the apostasy that's eating away at his church from the inside.
Traditional Anglican ping, continued in memory of its founder Arlin Adams. I wonder what the Archbishop would consider "policed"?
And once again I am grateful for our First Amendment.
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