Important to Remember
Making and Having
“All of this is one of the reasons why more than a few readers constantly assume that I am always making fun of them. This is because they belong to a different tradition, that, say, of stuffing all the shirts, and they have trouble distinguishing a man who is making fun from a man who is just having fun.”
No Such Thing as Bad Words, p. 57
Can We Agree So Far?
“Before claiming the right to speak like Ezekiel, can we at least agree that Ezekiel was Ezekiel? He, at any rate, rebuked the geopolitical lusts of Jerusalem, by saying that they yearned for Babylonians who were hung like donkeys, and who ejaculated like horses.”
No Such Thing as Bad Words, p. 53
Not the Trope, and Not the Houseplant
Dear Ehud, Thanks for the email, and for the follow-up phone conversation. I think I have a good grasp of your questions now, and of your dilemma, and hope that I can be of some help. I am thankful that your friend Dawson recommended that you contact me—Dawson’s a great one. If you don’t mind, …
Real Gingerly
“If someone is caught up in an immoral lifestyle, should we seek to help them? Well, of course, but in the same way we would want to help someone out if they had fallen into a sewage lagoon. Gingerly.”
No Such Thing as Bad Words, p. 49
April Bringeth Forth Her Letters
Letter to the Editor: I just finished watching your debate with Joe Heschmeyer on Sola Scriptura and had a question about Zechariah.In Joe's cross-examination of you (around the 1:33:40 mark), ...
The Rest of the Word
“I used the full text of the n-word just now because it is one of the words that is being used as an ideological slug, as evidenced by its banishment from real literature and its mandatory inclusion in rap music.”
No Such Thing as Bad Words, p. 45
Secularism as Protestant Heresy
Introduction: It is an old error, and an old trick, to blame the straight road for the behavior of those who veered off it. This is like blaming a math class for those who flunked out of it. And while there are times when an orthodox math class had a terrible teacher, and consequently shares …
An Appropriate Curse
“So of course the expression should never be used because the guy in front of you on the freeway is driving too slowly. But if a false teacher is spreading soft buttery lies about LGBTQ and + . . . then God damn that guy.”
No Such Thing as Bad Words, p. 39
The Sin of Not Swearing
“There are many occasions where it would be unrighteousness to swear. The prohibitions are in Scripture for a reason. But we must also keep in mind the fact that there are many occasions when it would be unrighteousness not to swear.”
No Such Thing as Bad Words, p. 31