Theology That Bites Back
Introduction: H.L. Mencken once suggested a shrewd educational reform that has somehow not caught on. He said that there was nothing wrong with our current education establishment that could not be fixed by burning all the schools, and hanging all the teachers. Now some might want to dismiss this as an extreme measure, but visionaries …
“The mere fact of a homo-tsunami is not an argument. Yes, it is quite true that we are replacing the old way of thinking about same-sex mirage with a new way of feeling about same-sex mirage. But the change is not just a rejection of the paradigm of a man and a woman in bed, …
No Nuance November There was another post about the upcoming “No Holds November.” Just wanted to drop a quick note saying I’m looking forward to it. The upcoming month reminds of another thing you said, trying to explain why you thought people liked to read your blog: “I will state it simply first, and then …
“Fruitlessness is a religion, and abortion is their bloody sacrament” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 144).
Introduction: One of the very useful set of categories that I learned from the reconstructionists back in the day was the distinction to be made between the three different kinds of religion. There is power religion, there is escape religion, and there is dominion religion. To expand slightly, there is the way of taking a …
When strings are pulled taut, the cello is tuned,The wood holds the wine that is seasoned and old.Dark music poured out and emptied the cask,And rolled in my goblet, rich, tawny and toldHow holiness tastes, how righteousness laughs. You shall be as God, the great dragon had said, Philosophers argue their shapes in the fire …
I want to take the approach of yet another Halloween to address something that is increasingly related to it. A few years ago I wrote about the lawfulness of celebrating Halloween itself — at the little kid dressing up level — but here I want to develop further a thought I mentioned in passing there. …
“The modern world has seen many revolutions, from the French Revolution to the Russian, but the bloodiest of all of them has been the sexual revolution” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 141).
“The worst thing about pragmatic accommodations is that they don’t work, and the best thing about principled lost-cause stands is that they do” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 139).
