{"id":7085,"date":"2004-01-31T11:38:57","date_gmt":"2004-01-31T16:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/01\/31\/heresy-is-better-than-schism\/"},"modified":"2004-01-31T11:38:57","modified_gmt":"2004-01-31T16:38:57","slug":"heresy-is-better-than-schism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/01\/heresy-is-better-than-schism\/","title":{"rendered":"Heresy is better than schism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">Heresy is better than schism, the Episcopal bishop of Virginia said yesterday in a speech that gently chided church conservatives for imperiling the unity of the country&#8217;s largest diocese over the consecration of the denomination&#8217;s first homosexual bishop last November. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;If you must make a choice between heresy and schism, always choose heresy,&#8221; said the Rt. Rev. Peter J. Lee to 500 Episcopalians meeting for the annual diocesan council at the Hyatt Regency in Reston. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;For as a heretic, you are only guilty of a wrong opinion,&#8221; Bishop Lee said, quoting Presbyterian scholar James McCord. &#8220;As a schismatic, you have torn and divided the body of Christ. Choose heresy every time.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">After delegates applauded him, he added, &#8220;I hope we will avoid both heresy and schism.&#8221; <br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washtimes.com\/national\/20040131-120323-2290r.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">I guess unity is now a higher value than the pursuit of truth.  Strange, I thought that Jesus mentioned that following him would cause divisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heresy is better than schism, the Episcopal bishop of Virginia said yesterday in a speech that gently chided church conservatives for imperiling the unity of the country&#8217;s largest diocese over&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}