[Industrialblog,
September 25, 2006]
To will the good ...
My friend TWS here has had a couple of posts talking about traditionalists as "haters". One concerns a bishop of South Carolina and the other the Archbishop of Canterbury.
TWS explicitly describes the debate in the Episcopal church in terms of hate. "Another face of hatred" is the title of the former post. The second describes Archbishop Akinola of Nigeria as "hateful."
Hate? The Anglican Communion's fuss over homosexuality is not an issue of hatred. It's about sin.
To love, we know, is to will the good for another. That involves knowing The Good (see Plato, all philosophers until Kant). The disagreement among the Anglicans is over the Good. One sees The Good as allowing homosexuals to express their sexuality in the way they choose; the other sees The Good as encouraging men and women to put their same-sex attraction at the foot of the cross and following Christ.
Hatred really isn't the issue, unless you believe that being mistaken about The Good is hatred.
FWIW.
TWS explicitly describes the debate in the Episcopal church in terms of hate. "Another face of hatred" is the title of the former post. The second describes Archbishop Akinola of Nigeria as "hateful."
Hate? The Anglican Communion's fuss over homosexuality is not an issue of hatred. It's about sin.
To love, we know, is to will the good for another. That involves knowing The Good (see Plato, all philosophers until Kant). The disagreement among the Anglicans is over the Good. One sees The Good as allowing homosexuals to express their sexuality in the way they choose; the other sees The Good as encouraging men and women to put their same-sex attraction at the foot of the cross and following Christ.
Hatred really isn't the issue, unless you believe that being mistaken about The Good is hatred.
FWIW.
Peace,
TWS
I credit this blog/post with being the reason I changed it.
I also struggle with my approach in my blog. I tend to point to what I see as bad, and criticize it, and I wonder if I shouldn't be pointing to what I see as good and emphasizing it. Might be a harder task, and people might not get the point. And then there is the inertia in the blog itself, which has an almost angry spirit. Not that anger is in itself bad - sometimes we need to get our blood pressure up, and get things done.
Best,
TWS