“Christians who feel guilt over their decisions of what to eat need to go to sleep on the roof, like Peter did, so that they might see the entire inventory of General Mills lowered in a sheet from heaven” (Food Catholic, pp. 29-30).
Surrounded With Beer Cans
If, under the new covenant, the promises of Deuteronomy can legitimately be applied to a nation today, then it is possible for us to sort out what we should think about immigration biblically. If the promises of Deuteronomy do not apply, then we (and the refugees) are cast upon our own resources. The whole subject …
False Moral Equivalence
“If He does not lose a sense of proportion in the Day of Judgment, then His representatives must no ‘get to preaching’ in such a way as to get carried away. And they must not get to denouncing sins in such a way as to create a moral equivalence between excessive consumerism on display at …
Dietary Sanctification
“There is a kind of mind that flips this around, and wants the heart to be established by food—wants to be in with God by means of what is put into the mouth” (Food Catholic, p. 27).
Modified Stationary Freak-Out
Introduction: So Donald “Jehu” Trump comes to the Left’s estate sale, looks at an expensive vase left by their deceased grandmother, and offers them ten bucks for it. “Ten dollars?!?!,” they screech in unison. “That is worth two thousand, at least.” What kind of idiot offers ten dollars for a two thousand dollar vase? After …
Rolling Coal to the Cabinet
And Like the Concrete . . .
Warning: some normal people may find some of the contents of this point disturbing. Some well-adjusted people may want to skip this one. But I simply want to briefly expand on a marvelous point made by Dan Phillips on Twitter, a point that deserves much wider circulation. Liberalthink: 1. You need to have a vagina …
Or Commentaries
The Confusion Begins Early
“But this moral inversion is not something that can be achieved in a day. Before you reverse good and evil, you must flatten good and evil, and before you flatten good and evil, you must flatten greater evil and lesser evil and greater good and lesser good. Moral egalitarianism is a rot that proceeds slowly. …
Posing as Peasants
“One of the saddest features (or funniest, depending) of contemporary food snobbery is the notion that rich people are getting in touch with the rhythms of the earth when they shop at the Whole Foods market. Paying three times as much for a really good apple is a fine thing to do, so long as …