Useful idiots

Thanks to Pastorius for the link he gives in his comment on my last posting: Martin Peretz's New Republic article 'J'accuse Episcopalians, Presbyterians et al.' - a good read on the background to ECUSA's anti-Israel posturing.

Does anyone else remember coming across 'The Socialist Sixth of the World' by Hewlett Johnson, the 'Red Dean of Canterbury', in second-hand bookshops? Browsing through it I came across a phrase which has stuck with me ever since: he says he was struck by 'the complete absence of fear in the faces of the people' - he is talking about his visit to Stalin's Soviet Union! The conjunction of good intentions and hopeless gullibility is a well-established tradition within politicized Anglicanism.