Cruel but fair
Gordon Cheng / 5th October 2004
Janet Albrechtsen has a bit of a go at pontificating church leaders in an opinion piece written for the Australian—read it here. She says:
Political preachers who evince such uncompromising moral certainty on the battlefields of Caesar and yet are so timid in defending orthodox Christian principles bring to mind what G.K. Chesterton said about a well-meaning cleric of his own times: “There is scarcely a shade of difference left between meaning well and meaning nothing.”
Whether or not we agree or disagree with the political opinion she criticises in her article, there is no doubt that she is right to question the failure of some church leaders to stand up for the basics of what they are supposed to believe.