Visionaries,
Two comments, if you all have moment. I separated “y’all” into “you all” as a concession to others on a sensitive topic.
First, I agree completely with Roger’s exposure of the hypocrisy that pervades this kind of issue. A color-blind society should mean one of two things: either nobody gets to do it, or everybody gets to do it. Our PC police have mandated an “everybody but Bubba” application. So the hypocrisy is blatant.
But, secondly, addressing the quotes that were posted yesterday on the “browning” of certain aspects of southern culture, allow me to offer this ironic dissent, using the Episcopalians for an example. Phillip Jenkins has written a wonderful book called The Next Christendom, detailing what exactly is going on in the browner parts of the globe. I believe a section of that book was published in the Atlantic, for those who want to hunt for it on-line.
However, what is not going on there in the browner parts of the globe is the ordaining of homosexual bishops. The Third World bishops are up in arms over the reprehensible actions of the American church in this, as well they should be. In some cases, the so-called browning of parts of our culture actually represents a return to the earlier values that our culture once had, but no longer has. I much prefer Trinitarian brown and black to apostate white. And you can quote me. But you probably won’t. Wouldn’t fit with the paradigm.
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.