Theology That Bites Back
Introduction: The other day I wrote about the regrettable evaporation of Phase 2 on the Epstein case, and in that piece I listed a number of possible options for understanding it. These options were offered to you, the discerning public, as possible explainers for what the heck was going on. I offered them as a …
“A Reformed understanding of the gospel, of worship, of education, of politics, and so on, is incoherent apart from a commitment to Christendom.”
“The goal is not double-negative modesty. You shouldn’t ask how short shorts can be before you’re definitely in sin and then wear shorts that are a millimeter longer than that. If you intend to go up to the sin line and then take a half step back, then your goal is to be almost in sin.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 102
Letter to the Editor: Re: Dealing with Discouragement. As much as I have enjoyed reading your rollicking, serrated posts that make me laugh out loud and often cover my mouth in disbelief ...
“Because we have been barraged with feminist propaganda, we have come to treat anyone who believes in a woman’s moral agency as someone who automatically ‘blames the victim.’ But two things can be true at the same time. A thief ought not to have broken into your car and stolen your wallet; and simultaneously, you shouldn’t have left your wallet on the dashboard with twenty-dollar bills sticking out of it in a bad part of town. The thief should be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, of course, And all of your friends should still laugh and call you an idiot for leaving your wallet there. And if you try to defend yourself to your friends and say, ‘I frankly think that you’re blaming the victim here,’ they should laugh and say, ‘Yeah, well, we are, because in this case the victim is an idiot.”
Keep Your Kids, pp. 101-102
“The question is simply whether or not public morality needs to be grounded in the will of God or not.”
“Men, do not dare be someone that the women in your household need protection from. You are to be the protector. You are to guard them from the dragon. You must not be the dragon.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 100
“The Judeo/Christian tradition was therefore a device used by secular man to get Christians and Jews to drop or mute their claims about that authority being from outside the world. This follows because if you establish this amalgam tradition down here when the transcendental claims are contradictory, then that means you don’t need to take either Christianity or Judaism seriously as a basis for governance. You have spiked the transcendental guns. The Judeo/Christian tradition therefore operates from within the system, and for a number of years has occupied an honored spot on secular man’s god shelf—mementos and knickknacks from the past. A Judeo/Christian lapdog cannot stand up to the secular onslaught, because the Judeo/Christian lapdog was first domesticated by secularism, and it has been that way for a long time.”
“Coaches see weakness and exploit it. Generals see weakness and exploit it. Business executives see weakness and exploit it. Husbands see weakness and honor it. That’s what Peter says: honor your wives as the weaker vessel.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 100
