“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.”
A Rape of Nature
“Sex reassignment surgeries are to sexual health what strip mining is to landscape architecture. Every sex change operation is a rape. It is not a rape of the patient, who consented, but it is a rape of nature, which did not consent, a rape of natural law, which does not consent, a rape of the Tao, which will never consent, and an attempted rape of God’s law/word, which will someday soon descend and execute judgment on the woolly scalps of those who perpetrate such crimes (Ps. 68:21).”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 48
Rice-Paper Thick
“As secularism has begun to function in terms of its own premises, we can readily see that their tolerance for views other than their own is rice-paper thick.”
That’s One Way
Horticultural Breakthroughs
“And this is what lies behind every sex-change operation, every breathless announcement that a ‘man’ is now pregnant—look at science go—and every attempt to tie apples onto orange trees and call it a horticultural breakthrough.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 48
Too Soon
“While secularism claims not to be ‘a’ religion, they do claim to be the arbiter of all religions—the faith of faiths, the religion of religions, the king of ki . . . better not go that far yet. Let’s give it a few more months.”
Whatever, Whomever, Whenever
“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
PIlls in Bottles
“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.”
Which Is to Say, a Lot
“Progressives love free speech the way parasitoid wasps love caterpillars.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 42
Something Jesus Brings
“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.”