“I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it’s been applied, will be one of the great jokes in the history books in the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity that it has. I think …
You Export What You Manufacture
“No virtue is contrary to another, but vices have nothing but contrarities and contradictions in them. Men’s lusts oppose and fight against one another in men’s hearts. No marvel then, when there are such stirs within, that they break forth into quarrels and contentions without. If a man is quarrelsome in his family, no wonder …
The Politics of Dancing
The Lord Jesus Christ is seated at the right hand of God the Father. That should affect things down here. As He exercises His authority, we discover in the Word that this authority is all encompassing. To use Kuyper’s phrase, not one square inch exists concerning which the Lord Jesus does not say, “Mine.” So …
Stuck in the Seventies
“There is no evidence that any Muslim woman anywhere ever wore the jilbab before the disco era, when it was taken up by the Muslim Brotherhood and others in the Arab world. It is no more ancient and traditional than platform shoes, bell bottoms, and cheesecloth shirts” (Mark Steyn, America Alone, p. 74).
Crowns Roll in the Dust
“The world’s way of responding to intimations of decay is to engage equally in idiot hopes and idiot despair . . . In Christian terms, such hopes and fears are equally beside the point. As Christians we know that here we have no continuing city, that crowns roll in the dust and every earthly kingdom …
A Snarling Defense
“Nothing is a man’s own so much as his lusts. Man aims wholly at himself in satisfying his lust. A dog will bark and bite and fly in a man’s face to preserve his own whelps” (Burroughs, Irenicum, p. 152).
Because My Brain Burbles
It used to be possible for believers to have a brain, but no more. This is because our ancestors lived in the blackest of ignorance, and theologians like Aqinas or Maimonides were just playing cards with the hand they were dealt. Ya know? I said in an earlier post that I was going to point …
Grab Them By Their Baptism
It has been said that, in the Bible belt, everyone is a Christian until they get their drivers’ license. As soon as a child is old enough to leave his upbringing, he does so. And, after a time of wild living, he frequently comes back to the church so that his kids can go to …
The MulitCulti Schmooze
“By contrast, contemporary multiculturalism absolves one from knowing anything about other cultures as long as one feels warm and fluffy toward them” (Mark Steyn, America Alone, p. 71).
Clutching at Novelty
“A dying civilization, Christendom, on a swiftly moving, ebbing tide, clutches at any novelty in art and literature, ready to accept and then almost at once reject whatever is new no matter how perverse or abnormal. We have a ‘weariness with striving to be men,’ as the American critic Leslie Fiedler put it” (Malcolm Muggeridge, …