Theology That Bites Back
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“I believe that Jews need Christ in order to be forgiven for their sins, and that if they die without Christ, then they die unforgiven. And I am well aware that in some quarters the mere embrace of such positions makes you de facto antisemitic. But the fact that I would be falsely charged with antisemitism does not make real antisemitism nonexistent.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 40
Introduction: Coming straight to the point, right wing reviling goes where all revilers do, which is straight into the Abyss. Alexander Solzhenitsyn once made the telling point that the line ...
“I can resist other people’s temptations all day long and not even break a sweat. But I am a hardline conservative, and this means that one of the things I should keep a weather eye out for is the tendency of certain kinds of conservatives to get a bad case of the Jew thing. I want to exercise the kind of climate control that prevents antisemitism from taking root and growing anywhere around me.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 40
“I can see on camera which side is shooting rockets, and which side is driving the tanks. But which side is pointing the cameras?”
American Milk and Honey, p. 39
Introduction: The great Richard Weaver taught us that ideas have consequences. But when they have massive cultural consequences, the mechanism works differently than it does when a solitary individual ...
One aspect of our morning routine is that Nancy and I read together. We each have our own Bible reading and devotional time, but then we come together to read and pray. We pray for our people, and pray for the day. We also read through the New Testament together, and in addition to that, …
Just a quick preface here. It is quite natural that many of you have questions, and I don't want to simply ignore them. At the same time, I am not intending to say much more than was already said ...
“Zionism as a doctrine was not a good idea. But in just the same way, Manifest Destiny was a piece of impudence cooked up by Americans during our ‘look at us go’ stage. I don’t hold the doctrine of Manifest Destiny at all, along with the assumptions that were underneath it. And yet, here my house is, ensconced in Idaho, right in the middle of Manifest Destiny territory. I own that house, have a legitimate right to it, and would object in quite forceful terms if Nez Perce Indians were shooting rockets at it.”
American Milk and Honey, pp. 37-38
Introduction: You don't really have to like the term Christian nationalism, not at all. But given the times in which we live, you do have to understand it. This should be done without freaking ...
