Someone asked Christopher Hitchens (the well-known atheist) the following question: "I'm a liberal Christian, and I don't take the stories from the Scripture literally. I don't believe in the doctrine of atonement (that Jesus died for our sins, for example). Do you make any distinction between fundamentalist faith and liberal religion?"
Hitchens replied: "I would say that if you don't believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ, that he rose again from the dead, and by his sacrifice our sins are forgiven you're really not in any meaningful sense a Christian".
From the mouths of renegades...
In contrast to Mr Hitchens' sentiments, let us now hear from the Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the USA. In 2009, Schori spoke about "the great Western heresy". This heresy is the teaching "that we can be saved as individuals, that any of us alone can be in right relationship with God... That individualist focus is a form of idolatry, for it puts me and my words in the place that only God can occupy, at the center of existence, as the ground of all being."
Enough said.
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