“The biggest blasphemy culprits in human history have consistently been these so-called lords of the earth—and not the mental patient who got off his meds and is saying erratic things in aisle 7 at Safeway. The state has always been the principal blasphemy threat, in other words.”
Bad Sinners Too
“So I don’t believe in free speech because I think that everybody has something valuable to say. No, I believe that all men and women are bad sinners, and it shows up in their speech. The trouble is that as soon as you start talking about regulating their free speech, because it is bad, all the possible enforcers and regulators are rock hewn from that same quarry. Censors are sinners too.”
Good News and Bad News
For His Time Is Short
“Some people think that in the transition from the old covenant to the new, blasphemy went from outlawed to somehow acceptable. It actually went from outlawed to doomed.”
Mere Christendom, 169
A Strategic Shift
[Regarding 1 Cor. 5:9-11] “Christians were given explicit and free permission to keep company with idolaters who would worship Aphrodite by fornicating with prostitutes at her temple. But is that not a blasphemous activity? Yes, it is, and this is the Pauline strategy for attacking it.”
Theological Taste Sensations
“One of the reasons why the question of free speech in a hypothetical Christian republic is such an interesting topic is because it brings together all kinds of issues, and presents them to us in a sizzling pan, a sort of corned beef hash with eggs and onions and exotic sauces all mixed up together and piping hot. Some of the taste sensations you might not have anticipated as going well together before you first tried it, but they do go together.”
No Good Reason Why Letters Shouldn’t Be Submitted in October
Letter to the Editor: My husband has led us into a congregation that is Arminian with a baptismal regeneration theology, very weak leadership, and works righteousness abounding.Is it wrong ...
With Chubby Cheeks
“If a man feels called to the ministry, one of the first things he should do is find a sweet little thing with a stout heart, marry her, and start having fat evangelical babies. This is something the homo-catechized world will sneer at, but only because they can’t do it. All they have is gay fruitlessness.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 98
It Ought to Require a Great Deal
“In times like ours, it is a standing disgrace that courage is not required to preach sermons.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 98
He’s Going To . . .
