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because ye were neither hot nor cold, I will spew you from my mouth

Another pub(l)ic spectacle from the New Pantagruel

The New Tolerance

April 15, 2005

You may be surprised to hear it, but I have great admiration for C. H. Spurgeon. A papist knows where he stands with such a man. But today an evangelical talk-show radio host can’t discuss a caller’s suggestion that John Paul II may now reside in the hot place. Some may see this as the fruit of “ecumenism,” but I do not. Working toward unity is one thing; minimizing real differences–in a public forum no less!–and acting as if they don’t exist out of some misplaced sense of propriety or “tolerance” is something else. On a related tangent, here is an interview with Uwe Siemen-Netto on the importance of not forgetting history, particularly Christian history.


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