“A Reformed understanding of the gospel, of worship, of education, of politics, and so on, is incoherent apart from a commitment to Christendom.”
Almost But Not Quite
“The goal is not double-negative modesty. You shouldn’t ask how short shorts can be before you’re definitely in sin and then wear shorts that are a millimeter longer than that. If you intend to go up to the sin line and then take a half step back, then your goal is to be almost in sin.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 102
No Letters Were Written In Haiku This Time
Letter to the Editor: Re: Dealing with Discouragement. As much as I have enjoyed reading your rollicking, serrated posts that make me laugh out loud and often cover my mouth in disbelief ...
Two Things Can Be True
“Because we have been barraged with feminist propaganda, we have come to treat anyone who believes in a woman’s moral agency as someone who automatically ‘blames the victim.’ But two things can be true at the same time. A thief ought not to have broken into your car and stolen your wallet; and simultaneously, you shouldn’t have left your wallet on the dashboard with twenty-dollar bills sticking out of it in a bad part of town. The thief should be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, of course, And all of your friends should still laugh and call you an idiot for leaving your wallet there. And if you try to defend yourself to your friends and say, ‘I frankly think that you’re blaming the victim here,’ they should laugh and say, ‘Yeah, well, we are, because in this case the victim is an idiot.”
Keep Your Kids, pp. 101-102
Pretty Simple
“The question is simply whether or not public morality needs to be grounded in the will of God or not.”
Be the Shield
“Men, do not dare be someone that the women in your household need protection from. You are to be the protector. You are to guard them from the dragon. You must not be the dragon.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 100
Just Kick It
Not An Effective Barricade
“The Judeo/Christian tradition was therefore a device used by secular man to get Christians and Jews to drop or mute their claims about that authority being from outside the world. This follows because if you establish this amalgam tradition down here when the transcendental claims are contradictory, then that means you don’t need to take either Christianity or Judaism seriously as a basis for governance. You have spiked the transcendental guns. The Judeo/Christian tradition therefore operates from within the system, and for a number of years has occupied an honored spot on secular man’s god shelf—mementos and knickknacks from the past. A Judeo/Christian lapdog cannot stand up to the secular onslaught, because the Judeo/Christian lapdog was first domesticated by secularism, and it has been that way for a long time.”
Yes, Honor
“Coaches see weakness and exploit it. Generals see weakness and exploit it. Business executives see weakness and exploit it. Husbands see weakness and honor it. That’s what Peter says: honor your wives as the weaker vessel.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 100
No Such Thing
“There is no such entity as the Judeo/Christian religion. As religions go, there is no way to combine the view that Jesus is the Christ with the idea that He was a fraud, or the claim that He rose from the dead with the counterclaim that He did nothing of the kind, or the idea that the New Testament correctly interprets the Old with the view that it is the Talmud that actually does. So as religions, they do not harmonize at the most basic level.”