“Look. Christians believe the Bible invented free societies. Secularists who worry about fundamentalist Christians sneaking in to spy out their liberties are like a prodigal son buying drinks for the house while secretly worrying that his father will break into his room that night in order to steal all his money” (Empires of Dirt, p. …
An E-Book on the Apostles’ Creed Now Available . . .
A new book of comments, notes and observations on the Apostles’ Creed is now available in the Mablog Store, with the link here. The Creed is a model of brevity, but it is amazing how much truth was compressed into it. It is sort of an early church zip file. This small book is designed …
Complicity and the Christ
“Rage is the salient characteristic of Satan and of the satanic in men. There are others, including guile, deceit, and temptation. But at the heart of Satan’s mission is an overwhelming animus against God and the godly” (Walsh, The Devil’s Pleasure Palace, p. 17). Introduction: We must choose, in the final analysis, between the rage …
Larceny Through Signing Ceremonies
“I want the coercive power of the state to fall on thugs and rapists, and not on the wrong kind of light bulb user. I want force to be applied to the man who would rob a merchant of his earnings, and not applied to the merchant himself so that the government might rob him …
That Would Explain a Lot of Things
Coercion: A Big Deal
“We need to recognize that politics is necessarily coercive, and because coercion is a big deal, a Christian social order should want to strictly limit coercion to the bounds assigned by Scripture. Unless I have a word from God, I don’t want to make anybody do anything” (Empires of Dirt, p. 213.).
Naboth as Fat Cat
“Taxing the people in order to perform a function that God did not assign to the state is called theft . . . If Jezebel had taken Naboth’s vineyard in the name of ‘social justice,’ or ‘land reform,’ that would not have altered the prophet’s view of it. Neither would it have helped if Jim …
Complicity and Crucifixion
Introduction: In the aftermath of Monday’s post on Rachael Denhollander, when my Twitter feed filled up with the customary vitriol, I thought that two things really had to be done. The first is that we need to explain and understand the depth of this animus, which can only be accounted for in terms of complicity, …
True Intersection
“The spirituality of the Church cannot be construed to mean that we are allowed to limit ourselves to visiting spiritual widows and ethereal orphans” (Empires of Dirt, p. 211).
Letters are Better Than Fetters
The Boz: Re: Denhollander and Boz I’d like to see you apply the principles of rules-of-evidence and due-process to your statements against Boz’s previous execution of his office (such as it is, and wherever he got it) and character. Qualifications: 1) We live in an age where I need to say that the above is …