Dear visionaries,
My faults are many and grievous. But I am not guilty of all vices, and one of the places where I do just fine is in not taking offense when someone “pokes fun.” If you stick your head through the canvas in the booth at the county fair, you can’t act surprised when people throw softballs at it. But I can assure you that the behavior of Roger that I was referring to had nothing whatever to do with poking fun.
So, an open invitation to all my critics. Poke fun as you like. Liberty hall. I frequently get a good chuckle myself when one of you lands a good one — although only a couple fall in that category.
At the same time, being mortal, I do enjoy it when my critics argue in such a way as to unwittingly poke fun at themselves–as when they raise bogus charges of white supremacy, that cult called presbyterianism, and homophobia falsely so-called. Like Duane’s letter to the editor last night. Anti-Semitism? It is comparatively hard to get a conservative evangelical minister like myself to think something like “what the hell?” But at least I didn’t say it.
Cordially,
Douglas Wilson
“Apologetics in the Void” are repostings from an on-going electronic discussion and debate I had some time ago with members of our local community, whose names I have changed. The list serve is called Vision 20/20, and hence the name “visionaries.” Reading just these posts probably feels like listening to one half of a phone conversation, but I don’t feel at liberty to publish what others have written. But I have been editing these posts (lightly) with intelligibility in mind.