Category: Engaging the Culture

“The secularists are currently running a play on us. We need to figure out that play and counter it. Actually, I need to modify the image. They are not running a play. They have run the same play about twenty times in a row, and they have scored each time. They are breathing hard from the touchdown dances. The game’s not even over, and half of our team is back in the locker room, putting R2K stickers on their helmets, looking for the true football game whose maker and builder is God.”

Virgins and Volcanoes, pp. 53-54

“We are endowed with our rights by a Creator. If no Creator, then no rights. Put another way, Darwin hates you.”

Mere Christendom, p. 147

“In the classical liberal order, there was an arbitrary desire to hang the rights of man on a great big invisible sky hook. But whenever you bolt this sky hook into the azure blue, it does not much matter how many extra Kantian bolts you use—the thing will simply not stay up there.”

Mere Christendom, p. 147

“The free speech rights of the average nonbeliever would be far more secure in a Christian republic than they currently are in this epistemic fun house of ours. If you want free speech protected, not absolutely, but fairly and generally, in a way consistent with decency and good order, then you should ask the Christians. They know how to do it. Secular pagans don’t know how to do it and, moreover, have no desire to do it. It is not one of their values.”

Mere Christendom, p. 143

“We respect man because we adore God. We honor man because we worship God. When we go the humanist route and honor man because we honor man, we find at the end of the day that our paltry sense of honor, suspended from its own sky hook, bolted up there to nothing whatever, is not all that distinct from dishonor. The entire human race is nothing more than the foam on the surface of an infinite ocean of chaos.”

Virgins and Volcanoes, pp. 50-51

“Without the pervasive influence of the gospel in society, freedom will collapse into form only, or form will deteriorate into anarchy only and you will have the free speech equivalent of a failed state.”

Mere Christendom, p. 142

“An essential part of natural revelation or natural law is found within us. God does not just place His letters out there in the natural world, He also places His literacy in our hearts. His letters are out there, His literacy is in here.”

Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 50

“If religious liberty were an app, secularism is not a platform that supports it. They respect our right to speak our minds in the same way that kidnappers respect their victims’ attempts to make themselves heard outside the car trunk.”

Mere Christendom, p. 141