Letter to the Editor: Re: Two Corrections Could not the unicorn in Job be the following: Elasmotherium AKA “Siberian unicorn”? Ian -- Doug responds: Ian, yes, that ...
Snowy Letters for a Snowy Day
In Which C.S. Lewis Wants Some Punks to Get Off His Lawn
Introduction: I recently worked through all of C.S. Lewis's short essays again, and as a consequence read his piece "Delinquents in the Snow" yet one more time. He wrote this piece after some ...
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Make It Even Clearer
“And this is why we now see the foolishness of dating things BCE (before the common era) instead of BC (before Christ), and CE (common era) instead of AD (anno Domini). Christian writers ought to fight with their editors for AD, and if they lose, they should then tell everyone that CE means ‘Christ’s Empire.’”
The Cultural Mind, p. 210
Just a Suggestion . . .
Deep Assumptions
“We rarely notice our bones, and consequently, we rarely notice what is in them.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 209
Because We Are Conceited
“We are amazed that doctors used to bleed their patients. But we then assume, as a rigid point of dogma, that we are doing nothing comparable. We believe, without reflection, that no on in the future will be amazed and appalled at what we are doing today.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 208
Five or Six Carolina Reapers on a Plate of Kraft Mac and Cheese
Prolegomena to the Introduction: Admittedly, this post is going to start out somewhat mildly. But I am simply setting the table, and boiling the water. What I am serving today is Kraft Mac and Cheese, ...
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This Shamanism
“We see that science, rightly understood, is a glorious thing . . . The problem arises with all the bad information that we think is science, such as junk pop science or politicized science. Scientists who do not acknowledge a God with final ultimate knowledge of every created thing have a problem . . . when scientists refuse to acknowledge an omniscient Creator God, their pretensions to actual knowledge become funnier and funnier. This is because we all instinctively know that someone around here must be the omniscient one. If we have denied that God can be that one, then someone else must take on the mantle. In our society, this priestcraft, this shamanism, is performed with a white lab coat.”
The Cultural Mind, pp. 205-206
Giants Big Enough to Fight
“We want to face fifteen little Goliaths, one at a time. This is why when we focus on one little giant, the other fourteen take us down fairly easily. We need to recover the faith of David and pray that the whole system of unbelief, the massive resistance to discipleship, will be seen all at once, all together, lying on the ground with a stone in its forehead.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 200
A Letter, and Then After That, Some Others
First, an update: Thomas Achord has acknowledged the tweets as being his, and his statement is here. And Stephen Wolfe has a series of statements on it he re. For my own part, I thought that Achord's ...