When Will It Be Obvious Enough to Point Out?

“The point is to identify the desperate spiritual problem we are confronting, to call it by its biblical name, and to call for repentance. Jesus speaks of those who are in the grip of a self-important self-righteousness, which is the chief characteristic of our Intoleristas, and He says that their fundamental problem is that they are spiritually dull. “For this people heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them” (Mt. 13:15). Dullness of ear, when it comes to the words of God, inexorably leads to dullness of everything else. And so this is why we are confronting a culture of tedious and interminable dullness, characterized by short attention spans, sound-byte argumentation, tepid poetry, obnoxious art and architecture, techno-chattering music, unloved and therefore ugly women, unloved and rejected children, not to mention unloved and therefore dismembered children, and a culture rapidly becoming as grotesque as a Super Bowl half-time” (Black and Tan, pp. 81-82).