Theology That Bites Back
The main category for book reviews and cultural interaction.
If you have been a regular around here, you probably know that I think some aspects of AI are stupendous and wonderful, all part of fulfilling the cultural mandate, and that other aspects of it are creepy and demented, and that a third category of AI is just lame. We are all still working out …
“We’ve gotten to the point where surgeons can operate on and chemically castrate children. We can have mastectomies for teen girls and genital mutilation for the boys. And why? Because if we don’t, we might hurt somebody’s feelings. We are simultaneously sentimental and cruel . . . There is no way to bridge this gap by negotiations, but discussion, by trying to be winsome. You can’t. You can’t apologize your way into a good relationship with people who are on the other side of this chasm.”
Keep Your Kids, pp. 8-9
“The fact that we clean up real nice on Sundays and go to church and sing songs and like to do religious things and like to talk theology doesn’t change the fundamental kink or twist in every human heart. That kink or twist can only be mortified by the Holy Spirit.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 7
Introduction: The Christian faith rose to preeminence in the Roman world in the face of unrelenting hostility from the state—three centuries of that hostility. Unlike other faiths, which came to dominate their respective regions with the help of the sword, the Christian faith didn’t have that kind of help. It is consequently easy for Christians …
“Adam’s sin includes us. We are sinners by nature, bad to the bone from the very first moment—bad to the bone before we have any bones.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 4
“The fact that the sweet child in the cradle hasn’t started smoking cigarettes or pounding shots does not signify anything. You say, ‘Oh, they look so sweet, they look so innocent.’ But five years later, they are out terrorizing the neighborhood, acting like a cross between a hobgoblin and a bobcat.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 4
Letter to the Editor: Peter Bell of the Sons of Patriarchy podcast has done interviews with former members [of our church] and many of our congregation are shocked and dismayed. Mr. Bell ...
What is the scriptural teaching on birth control? The question needs to be narrowed down a bit. The raw reality of birth control could refer to anything from a man deciding not to marry, which results ...
“Children do not begin in some neutral place. They do not start out innocent. As my father used to say, with great affection, ‘Babies are little bundles of sin.’ All that is necessary for the sinning to start is the requisite muscle strength and intelligence. Once the muscle strength and intelligence are there, the sinning starts. And sometimes it starts a little bit before that.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 3
