Biblical prayer does not ascend to Heaven and bring Christ down to ease our presumed cultural doubts. The second spiritual danger of inclusivism is that it is unloving. Spiritual openness and pluralism, however, are not the same as love, for Christian love always involves repentance and forgiveness. One small but telling addition in the new rites is the confession of sin against God, our neighbor, and ourselves . In this misreading of Jesus' second great commandment, the idea of sinning against ourselves reveals an unbiblical notion of sin.
Love thus becomes highly individualistic and sentimental.
But niceness is not the same as the love saints are made of. In a climactic scene from A Man for All Seasons , Thomas More's daughter Meg tries to convince him to swear a false oath to King Henry. Christian love is at heart a participation in Christ's sacrifice, and in More's case this meant sticking to his word. Because inclusivism has introduced a false notion of self-fulfillment, it has no coherent place for sacrificial love. I have my doubts.