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...Thank you very much for your cover story [Nov. 11] on Bishop James Albert Pike, a man whom I greatly admire for his courage and convictions. It is high time that someone made people think for themselves, instead of letting the church do it for them...
...Episcopalians because of Pike's counseling and friendship, one of us a former Congregationalist, who did not believe enough, the other a former Roman Catholic, who was called on to believe too much. Pike is a great mind, a great spirit and a great Christian in the fullest sense of that special word...
...traditional position of the church has been to promulgate dogma, but we live in a day when dogma is a dirty word and to call a person dogmatic means he has a narrow, closed mind. Pike, thank God, has an open mind, a facile, exciting mind, and if he dares suggest we re-examine the meaning of some of those traditional words, he is trying to speak to the people of today, and we say "God bless him" for trying...
...wrote to the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church just before the farcical meeting of the House of Bishops, I would far rather, if it became an issue, be outside the church with the right to think and with commitment to truth and love with a man like James Pike than remain in it with the hypocrisy, cowardice, bigotry and superstition of his accusers...
...Reductionist Pike's case reduces to this: the question is not whether he is right or wrong, but whether he is Episcopalian. His non-transcendent, non-omnipotent, non-Trinitarian, nonChristian, nonBiblical god does not represent a new description of the Christian God, but a new god. As long as he holds such beliefs as a member of a Christian church, he shows himself to be without the character to stand for what he believes without the support of those whom his robes deceive...