Theology That Bites Back
The main category for book reviews and cultural interaction.
I had dinner with Charlie Kirk just a few weeks ago. He was a good man, full of life, full of questions, full of zeal. He was a patriot who was doing a lot of good for a lot of people. His instruments for accomplishing this were his ability to organize, and his talent for …
“The problem is that as soon as they abandon the understanding of marriage as a covenanted conjugal relationship of a man and a woman, they have no consistent stopping point. Some of them don’t want a consistent stopping point, and others of them do—but they still can’t have one.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 60
“Our understanding of this will never be advanced by denying the essential goodness of the Old Testament law, dead teens and all, slavery and all, stoning for adultery and all.”
Introduction: In this next chapter, some of the Caleb Campbell's motivations became a lot more apparent to me, and it actually had the effect of generating some sympathy for him. I will get to that ...
“Scripture says nothing explicitly about sex-change operations, and Scriptures says nothing explicit about dental work. So if we restrict ourselves to a tight biblicism, we are going to be forced into an agnosticism that will take us where we really do not want to go. But here is the thing. Scripture is not silent whether or not nature is silent.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, pp. 54-55
“Rushdoony was a man who was willing to whittle his theonomic stick until it had a pointed, jabby end. And then he would walk up to the classical liberal order in order to poke it. He would then want to ask some follow-up questions.”
Letter to the Editor: Red Dress ReductivismThat was funny, cheeky, and entirely appropriate. It would be interesting to learn whether those two women were also wearing blue stockings… ...
“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.”
“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.”
