When Pirates Are Powerful
“Some taxes are simply legalized stealing” (Empires of Dirt, p. 218).
Woke Sisters
One of the more important things my father taught me was always to act, “never react.” Now because we are creatures, we must react at some level, most notably in simple obedience to God and His Word. We are not autonomous beings, but rather creatures who are responsible to respond in appropriate ways. But if …
Moses and the Modern World
Last September I posted a piece called “The Death Penalty as Our Only Hope.” As a result of that I got into a brief Facebook exchange with Joel McDurmon on some of the issues involved. As it happens we are planning to continue that discussion this afternoon on Iron Sharpens Iron. In the spirit of …
More, More, More from the Mailbag
Rage on a Short Tether: 2 Kings 19:20-21,27-28 “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria. This is the word that the Lord has spoken against him . . . But I know where you are and when you come and go and …
Complicity and the Christ
“Rage is the salient characteristic of Satan and of the satanic in men. There are others, including guile, deceit, and temptation. But at the heart of Satan’s mission is an overwhelming animus against God and the godly” (Walsh, The Devil’s Pleasure Palace, p. 17). Introduction: We must choose, in the final analysis, between the rage …
Larceny Through Signing Ceremonies
“I want the coercive power of the state to fall on thugs and rapists, and not on the wrong kind of light bulb user. I want force to be applied to the man who would rob a merchant of his earnings, and not applied to the merchant himself so that the government might rob him …
Coercion: A Big Deal
“We need to recognize that politics is necessarily coercive, and because coercion is a big deal, a Christian social order should want to strictly limit coercion to the bounds assigned by Scripture. Unless I have a word from God, I don’t want to make anybody do anything” (Empires of Dirt, p. 213.).
Naboth as Fat Cat
“Taxing the people in order to perform a function that God did not assign to the state is called theft . . . If Jezebel had taken Naboth’s vineyard in the name of ‘social justice,’ or ‘land reform,’ that would not have altered the prophet’s view of it. Neither would it have helped if Jim …
Complicity and Crucifixion
Introduction: In the aftermath of Monday’s post on Rachael Denhollander, when my Twitter feed filled up with the customary vitriol, I thought that two things really had to be done. The first is that we need to explain and understand the depth of this animus, which can only be accounted for in terms of complicity, …