Theology That Bites Back
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“A welcoming place is defined as one where you can hump whatever you want, blame the resultant disease on whomever you want, and get a government subsidy to make up for your courageous suffering whenever you want.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 42
“Religion makes people fly planes into skyscrapers. Religion makes people baptize babies. Religion makes people go door to door to offer little pieces of paper to other people. Religion makes widows be burned alive on the pyre of their deceased husbands. Religion makes other widows mail pitiful little checks to Joel Osteen. Religion makes people build hospitals in the jungles of the Congo. Talking about what ‘religion’ does in the world is like defining ‘medicine’ as ‘pills in bottles.’ I am not sure you should take that. My aunt took a pill from a bottle once and was sick for a week.”
Introduction: I recently had occasion to sit down with Gary DeMar from American Vision. The original plan had been to discuss eschatology and preterism, and the still unresolved differences of a few ...
“Progressives love free speech the way parasitoid wasps love caterpillars.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 42
“If you want the fruit called religious liberty, you have to want the tree that this kind of fruit grows on. This means that if we want maximum liberty for people who don’t believe in Jesus, then we will have to . . . believe in Jesus.”
Letter to the Editor: I could not believe there are people out there with such a bigoted, intolerant and hateful view on life. The ONLY reason I write this is to register my abhorrence ...
“Yeah, my interlocutor might say but if the Bible taught that the earth was a flat disk rocking precariously on the back of an enormous turtle, would you believe that too? The answer is that 1) it doesn’t teach that, and 2) if it did, we would have found the turtle by now, and your argument would be invalid, having failed empirically.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 41
“If someone takes human choices in the marketplace as his absolute, the end result will be a market in which the fundamental commodity will be the souls of men. But if someone takes the law of God as his direction, the end result will be a market in which a man can buy and sell his cabbages or cabinets or cars without getting permission from some functionary at the Department of Hubris.”
Introduction: I have hazarded the guess that you are not even close to being tired of dealing with the subject of Christian nationalism . . . well, neither am I. The two traditional topics ...
