Theology That Bites Back
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“Over time, movements tend to turn into rackets. There is such a thing as the Holocaust hustle . . . But while some have a vested interest in the Holocaust’s uniqueness, there are others who have a vested interest in the opposite direction. They want to say that the Holocaust didn’t happen at all. Everywhere you go, you run into people.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 20
Letter to the Editor: In response to "To All the Dank Anons . . . Shall We See You Anon?"Having in my life been kicked out of two careers over the issue of the gay agenda and my refusal to ...
“We are actually talking about the blessings of Deuteronomy coming to the Gentile nations that have received the Messiah of the Jews. These Gentile nations will consequently become the head, and not the tail, and Paul knew that this was a strategy that would actually work on his people. Carping envy from Gentiles only reinforces Jewish unbelief. It feeds and nourishes Jewish unbelief. It is a central complicating part of the problem of Jewish unbelief.”
American Milk and Honey, pp. 17-18
Introduction: Some of the recent online polemical disputes and such have raised the question of anonymous battle-bot accounts (or anons, for short). Let's think about it for a moment, shall we? What ...
“Now if the dogma of egalitarianism has you by the throat, when confronted with hard statistics like this, you only explanation is that the Jews must be cheating.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 14
“What antisemites want to do is point to the outsized Jewish involvement in things that really are nefarious, or in things considered by them to be nefarious. What they overlook is outsized Jewish involvement in things that are helpful, wholesome, and good.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 12
“This is why some conservatives need to stop eating their anger porridge every morning . . . for those who have been around the kind of things I write, you will know that I believe we are supposed to have enemies. And I also believe that it is most necessary that we fight them. At the same time, and this cannot be emphasized too much, we are under the strictest of orders to love our enemies (Matt. 5:44; Luke 6:27,35). Love is not inconsistent with a vigorous polemic. It is not inconsistent with prophetic rhetoric. It is inconsistent with scurrilous abuse.”
American Milk and Honey, pp. 10-11
Introduction: Some have raised a question about the propriety of my Haman letter at such a time as this. The question is whether we really need to debate this Jew thing during this season of Christmas. ...
“It is hard to see straight and see red at the same time.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 9
