Jesus' death on the cross is increasingly presented in our culture as destructive doctrine. Indeed, this is but one example of how the intellectual incredibility of Christianity the indictment of the Enlightenment and some of the nineteenth century -is now overlayered with the acclaim of the moral evil and culpability of Christianity. Christianity is charged with sustaining antisemitism, sexism, homophobia, cultural imperialism and racism. For example, many today claim it is legitimate to make a direct appeal to the speaker's experience and that that appeal should have as much weight as an appeal to Scripture or to tradition. A widely spread error in the mainline churches is that there is no such thing as norms for Christian teaching.
Tradition is the dead hand of the past.
Hence, each should feel free, and often many seem to feel free, to equate their opinion or their interpretation of their experience as the very voice of God and a form of revelation. For many today, Anglicanism's most winsome quality is its ambiguity, its comprehensiveness. Many have joined the Episcopal Church because they think that Episcopalians don't have to believe in anything particular to be an Episcopal Christian.