Certainty can lead to arrogance.
Arrogance invariably leads to condemnation.
J.B. Phillips' Your God is Too Small . The title tells the story. And with that small God they seem bent on whipping the very world that God so loves. The only answer I have for this question is that we must struggle more faithfully, we must labor with more love to hold up a balance to what many see and experience as an oppressively rigid Christianity. This balance of grace over guilt may be one of the Episcopal Church's best and most enduring gifts to the patchwork fabric of the Christian faith.