“Those who want the government have the right to kill blasphemers are also asking for the government to have the right to kill those who rebuke their blasphemies.”
Levels of Light, Levels of Guilt
“Ultrasound technology was just coming in Nancy and I were expecting our third, and the level of technology at that point, speaking of smudge, was not all that great. The ultrasound image looked like a bad xerox copy of a black and white photo of a distant galaxy. But today the images are strikingly good, and you can even see that your son has his grandfather’s dimples. In short, the ‘clump of cells’ argument has now been revealed for what it is, a murderous lie, and it put a lot of people in the position of having to sin against far more light than they were yet prepared to sin against.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 82
Christ, a First Table Convict
“And we should never forget that Christ was convicted on a first table offense. This should give us pause, not because it should never be applied, but rather because of how easy it is to be misapplied.”
The Ultimate Point
“Because we are smashmouth incrementalists and not of a mind to share Jerusalem with the Jebusites, we must never forget that our final objective has to remain a total ban on all human abortion.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 80
Sexual Sanity
“Assume with all the cool kids that your grandparents’ sexual mores were infra dig (as the kids say today) and terminally unhip, and the end results will be dottier than a three-day convention of Dalmatian owners.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 78
RPM Running Hot
“The people running the world are fools. Now many of them, no doubt, did well on their GREs. The tachometer in their little red convertible of a brain can bounce nicely at the right side of the dial. But that does not change the fact that they are barreling down the wrong road late at night, a dark and stormy night actually, and the bridge right up ahead of them is out. Once they launch the whole red operation off the end of that collapsed bridge, the tachometer, such as it is, becomes largely irrelevant. One does not glance at it anymore. One has somehow lost interest.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, pp. 77-78
The Absurdity Horizon
“We have now advanced well past the absurdity horizon, the point past which no recovery is possible without resorting to the forces of dark bigotry and reaction.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 75
Outlawing Good Men
“A return to sanity will be a return to an unapologetic acceptance of the fact that men are of necessity going to be dominant. They only choice we have as a society is between whether the dominance is going to be constructive or destructive. Because the poobahs in charge have spent the last generation or so outlawing every form of constructive male dominance they can identify, we are now discovering that—far from empowering women—they have actually empowered destructive male dominance. Put another way, when constructive male dominance is outlawed, only outlaws will have male dominance.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, pp. 72-73
Men Guarding Against Men
“Women really do need to be protected and guarded from men. They need this because there really is a thing called toxic masculinity. But the only ones who are capable of protecting women from men are the men. The only thing capable of protecting women from toxic masculinity is masculinity.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 72
The Real Toxicity
“When you are trying to describe bio-males competing against women in women’s sports, that elusive phrase you are looking for is #ToxicMasculinity.”
Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 70