To be honest , I feel like a lot of even the good stuff he has to offer ends up being spoiled by the way he delivers it . For example , imagine a man who ' s giving a talk at a conference on spirituality , and in the audience is a mix of Catholics who could be described as liberal and Catholics who could be described as conservative . The basic theme of the man ' s talk is that God is love . But rather than just saying God is love which everyone both liberals and conservatives would have agreed with , he instead says , I hope no one here will try and burn me at the stake for saying this , but let ' s not forget that God is love . And so the people in the room who could be described as conservative end up feeling exasperated because , with the ideological climate being what is , the barb obviously couldn ' t have been directed at the liberals , and so it must have been directed at the conservatives . And they feel that they ' re being gratuitously bashed in a very unfair way being passiveaggressively and falsely accused of being opposed to the message that God is love and so they get defensive . And then after the talk the liberals go on about how defensive the Pharisee conservatives were at hearing that God is love .