Context is everything ...

... maybe the archbishop is getting a bum rap: Plausible Unavoidability.

But if what we want socially is a pattern of relations in which a plurality of divers and overlapping affiliations work for a common good, and in which groups of serious and profound conviction are not systematically faced with the stark alternatives of cultural loyalty or state loyalty, it seems unavoidable.

An awful sentence, I would say, downright Orwellian in its vacuity.