Well, Naturally
Which Is Why We Are Here on the Bottom
โThe human race is constituted as a race. Individual persons are not like individual rocks in the driveway, but rather like individual leaves on a tree. Each leaf can be made out distinctly, but anybody who seeks to understand leaves without reference to the tree is not following the path of wisdom. So when Adam …
Every Direction is Problematic
โGiven the penchant for organization displayed by the human mind, which is in its turn a reflection of how God made the world, it is impossible to leave one error without heading toward another one. It is not possible to leave an error forcefully without creating a situation in which you are forcefully headed toward …
That Lutheran Jezebel Lady
Introduction: So then, Nadia Bloz-Weber, reigning queen of the ecclesiastical division of the รpater la bourgeoisie vibe, achieved peak relevance recently by gathering up a bunch of purity rings, melting them down into a fair approximation of her theological rigor, and then fashioning them into a sacred vagina thing, like a little bowling trophy. She …
Because of Extant Bibles
โThe reason that the use of images in worship was not controversial in the first generations of the Church was because nobody was doing it. Centuries later, when they began to do it, the controversy cameโ (Papa Donโt Pope, p. 113).
As In, Not Very Well
โThe veneration of icons in a Christian synagogue in A.D. 57 would have gone over like a big pile of greasy bacon at their menโs prayer breakfastโ (Papa Donโt Pope, p. 112).
As the Letter Cometh
Intransigence is Such a Great Word: Regarding your well detailed essay on godly intransigence I have experienced significant whiplash on this matter. Back in 2004 I had moved to my new home in an area populated with Democrats. Since this was a presidential election year I knew the overall sentiment was for John Kerry based …
And They Could Use a Patron Saint
โIn another instance, when the people had been told to โlook toโ the bronze serpent, over time this looking became devotional looking, and Hezekiah had Nehustan destroyed. To which we should respond, good for old St. Hezekiah, patron saint of righteous iconoclastsโ (Papa Donโt Pope, pp. 110-111).
๏ปฟSanctification and the Bell Curve
Introduction: So I have been mulling over a point which, if thought through, will help explain various misunderstandings, kerfluffles, and upcoming events. They are different issues, but there is a common thread to them all. The problems are very different, but the thing they all have in common is a sort of egalitarianism when it …
Book of the Month/March 2019
My selection this month for my book of the month is Seeing Green by Tilly Dillehay. The book is about envy, not the environment, as the subtitle indicatesโโDonโt Let Envy Color Your Joy.โ And this is quite a timely book. The book is competently done, well-written, and it is aimed at a river sin that …