“Before fining someone, or flogging him, or putting him in jail, or exiling him, or executing him, which pretty much exhausts the options, we had better know that what we are doing is authorized by God. If it is, well and good. If it is not, then we are abusing someone created in the image of God, and God is going to hold us accountable for it. We should either coerce with a clean conscience (and an open Bible) or not at all.”
Pleased, But Not Satisfied
“Children arrive immature. God has us start out as immature babies on purpose. And parents can be very pleased with an immature child. However, parents should not be satisfied with an immature child. He’s right where he’s supposed to be—but the parents should be overseeing and teaching and nourishing him so that he grows up out of that.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 42
Smashmouth Compromise?
Introduction: A week or so ago, Bibledingers hosted another debate on abolitionism versus smashmouth incrementalism. This one involved four of us—Joe Rigney was together with me, and T. Russell ...
Hellish Logic
“This is the logic of Hell. This is the reason our civilization is coming apart. It’s a demand to break free from everything objective and outside of self; it’s a demand, in effect, to make reality optional. That’s the real message behind all the signs at all the protests that support the spirit of the age. If you see a furry protest, or a feminist protest, or a queers-for-a-free-Palestine protest, then be assured that every sign they carry could easily be replaced with a sign that reads ‘Make reality optional.’ That is what they want.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 36
Another Binary Choice
“The solution is too turn back to Jesus—not simply in our hearts, although it must begin there, but to do so on the steps of the county courthouse. When it comes down to it, there is fundamentally a basic choice. Either we will have a nativity set there with Joseph, Mary, the baby Jesus, two cows, a goat, and a drummer boy, or we will have two (or more) homosexuals holding up their marriage license for the photographers.”
Onto the China Hutch
Lies Work Best Untethered
“The therapeutic heresy has insisted on complete emotional autonomy and independence, and this has resulted in absolutely incoherent phrases like ‘my truth.’ But the fact that it is incoherent doesn’t keep you from hearing it all the time . . . In the government school system, teachers have to accommodate furries. How did this kind of nonsense get this far? Because of untethered empathy. Because we live in a generation that wants to disconnect from the way the world actually is.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 34
And Self-Righteous
“Never forget that the devil at heart is a prohibitionist.”
Prototypes of Hell
“But not knowing Him does not just result in Hell later. It also means that when we refuse to acknowledge Him here and now, the end result is that we start building little prototypes of Hell in order to test drive them. And that is why the public square rapidly becomes a haunt for owls and jackals.”
Their Idea of Real Compassion
“They haul you away to their reeducation centers more in pity than in anger.”