Theology That Bites Back
Dear Dawson, The next thing I would like to cover with you has to do with the broader issue of authority, hierarchy and submission, and how these Christian concepts are in a death match with every form of egalitarianism. There are two things we have to understand about how authority works in all of this. …
“We have it on good authority that we cannot harvest figs from thorn bushes (Lue 6:44) . . . Rendering general by induction, we may infer that it is also not possible to gather pink grapefruit from your juniper bushes, or pine nuts from your tomato plants, or lemons from your box hedge. Pursuing the analogy relentlessly, we may also surmise that you cannot send your child to a culinary school and expect to get back a mechanical engineer . . . We often act astonished when we have no right whatsoever to be surprised in any way. We say, wide-eyed with Aaron, that all we did was put in a bunch of gold, and ‘out came this calf’ (Ex. 32:24) . . . And lest I be accused of being too oblique in the point I am seeking to make, you cannot send all the Christian kids off to be educated in a school system that is riddled with rank unbelief, shot through with relativism, and diseased with perverse sexual fantasies, and then wonder at the results you get.”
Gashmu Saith It, pp. 55-56
Letter to the Editor: TIN SOLDIERS AND TRUDEAU'S COMING " The body they may kill , God's truth abideth still." In a few hours, the Lord willing, we will gather in large numbers to ...
“As we watch this great parade of dunsical folly every night on the news, one thought should come back to haunt us with every fresh insult to right reason. And that thought should be, ‘Who educated these people?’ And the follow-up question should be, ‘And why haven’t they been sacked?’”
Gashmu Saith It, pp. 54-55
Introduction: I don’t care who you are, having an elderly woman trampled by your cops on horseback is a bad look. Another bad look comes when it is not possible to confirm or refute reports of that poor woman’s death. As I was composing this paragraph on Saturday, there were rumors that she had died …
“You absolutely have to mortify that internal bookkeeper that meticulously counts how many times you invited and how many times you have been invited.”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 50
[Regarding Luke 14:13-14] “Jesus here is getting at the heart of how hospitality can go wrong, when it goes wrong. There are obvious limits here—if you have little kids you don’t want to fill up your house with meth addicts—but at the same time we cannot let our understanding of the obvious limits become something that trumps an obvious text.”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 49
“Enslaved societies are atomistic, while free societies are molecular. When every individual is a solitary BB, and you dump all the BBs into a sack—we shall call the sack ‘the state’—you find that it has all the solidity of a bean bag chair. At some point it occurs to the powers that be that it would be to their advantage to encourage sexual license, and to legalize pot, which is a move that greases all the BBs. Individuals are in no position effective to resist the encroachments of the state. For that we need Edmund Burke’s little platoons.”
Gashmu Saith It, pp. 45-46
Dear Dawson, I am glad your friend Lauren has agreed to go out with you again. Making it past the third date is a milestone. But you are still getting to know her, and she is getting to know you, and so you are both still navigating what can be a pretty treacherous path. Her …
