Loving the sinner.
The person of faith lacks the wherewithal to make the case for God but knows that Godself does not need the benefit of human advocates.
A reader contributes to Andrew Sullivan’s latest apologia series on theodicy. It’s an eloquent defense, but ultimately does nothing more than reassert the primacy of blind faith over internally consistent logic.
Sullivan is at his weakest rhetorically when he attempts to reconcile his stubborn faith with his passionate intellectual curiosity.
It just occurred to me that I always go to pains to mention that I respect people of faith - even though I disagree with them I struggle not to judge or belittle them. But that’s just another way of saying hate the sin, love the sinner, isn’t it? As much as I may pay lip service to the idea, I don’t really respect anyone who has the capacity to understand the way the universe works and yet insists on clinging to a childlike anthropomorphism of it.
