Schism, of its very nature, seems to beget schism, irrationality, and unreasonable, paradoxical absurdity. How can the left hand, and the right, be in schism with each other, while the rest of the body is in communion, simultaneously with the very same two hands being in schism, and remain to say, with a straight face: “we are One”. Makes no sense.
In fact, it is a weak witness for the claim that the body is One, whole, complete and true. Schism, literally means division. To excommunicate, is to remove one from the body, i.e. to put one in schism.
So, we have two hands, in schism, excommunicating each other, while the rest of the body, oblivious to the fact that the two hands which have removed each other from the body, in the name of the very same body, asserting that they are in communion with the very same removed hands, being parts removed, and not parts of the whole, all the while the rest of the body insists the hands are not removed, but One with them.
If this does not demonstrate violating the law of non-contradiction, I don’t know what does. Absurd. On the contrary, what I see is pretty simple, and much more reasonable to comprehend:
Many parts, blind to the fact that they are indeed parts, and not One, of which they pretend to be, and deceive themselves to subsist in the same, through which, by the merit of their disillusionment about being One, cut each other off from the One, in the name of the One, when they are not One at all, but indeed many, different parts. Many of which, due to the accidents of history, stand completely ignorant, and unaware they are actually truly separated from the whole, true, absolute, and universal One. This very universal One, which obviously has the authority to admit, or refuse, membership into its Oneness, calls to those who are not One, to stop playing around, and become of whole again with the One.
While the One, this true One, sees the foolishness of the parts that believe they are One, that are separated from it, opens its arms to receive the foolish parts back into its whole, and protect them from this absurd blind self destruction. Yet, schism begets schism, blindness, equivocation, irrationalities, and foolishness that is contrary to reason.
EAR