“We live in a time when progressives can sport bumper stickers that will tout the ticket of Shagrat/Slubgob 2024, and still manage to look down on you and your kind as ethical retards.”
Christians, Gerrymandering, and the Legitimate Uses of Political Power
Introduction: I don’t want to seem ungrateful because I really have benefited much from the contributions of what might be called “Banner of Truth” postmillennialism. However, the emphasis with this strand of theology is almost entirely focused on the gigantic ticker tape parade of evangelism, mission work, intense revivals, and more. Scarcely a thought is …
Melted Butterscotch
“The people always have an earnest desire to have a messenger who is willing to prophesy smooth things for them (Is. 30:10). ‘Prophesy deceits unto us’—they want deceits, boy, and they want them layered on thick. They want to heap up teachers who will stroke their felt needs (2 Tim. 4:3). If a man of wind comes prophesying wine and beer, he would be just the right spokesman for this people (Mich. 2:11). They want prophets who will speak to them in terms of affirming and melted butterscotch. They want pumpkin spice sermons.”
Why Isn’t She Impressed?
Smells Just Like That
“What does shocking language do? One of the things it accomplishes is that it wakes people up. It brings them to their senses. It smells like burnt Marsh-wiggle.”
Slicker Than a Pocket Full of Pudding
Introduction: So Nick Fuentes is now maintaining that white people who are opposed to open borders should make a point of voting Democrat in the mid-terms, and they would do this as a way of "punishing" ...
Letters, LIke May Flowers, Have Come
Letter to the Editor: RE: In Honor of Ben SasseMore than one thing can be true at the same time, which a lot of society seems to have forgotten. It’s common sense and critical thinking. ...
Drawing the Line Somewhere
“There is no shortage of sin to denounce, and yet the only sin that the Christian church is willing to denounce is the sin of denouncing any of it.”
In Honor of Ben Sasse
Introduction: So this is a post that requires a little bit of background. Not too much, but some. If you bear with me, I should be making good sense by the end. The grand theme is this. In Augustine's ...
Missing the Jab
[Concerning Matt. 6:2] “We often miss the earthy peasant humor of Christ (that He could use to devastating effect) because we read our Bibles through seven or eight layers of high gloss sanctimony. But Jesus was not afraid to make fun of what might be called tarantara tithers.”